CVE-2007-5824 (GCVE-0-2007-5824)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-05 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:47
VLAI
Summary
webserver.c in mt-dappd in Firefly Media Server 0.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and daemon crash) via a stats method action to /xml-rpc with (1) an empty Authorization header line, which triggers a crash in the ws_decodepassword function; or (2) a header line without a ':' character, which triggers a crash in the ws_getheaders function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1597 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483211/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26309 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/28269 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?grou… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200110 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/30661 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20071… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2007-11-02 00:00
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