CVE-2019-17502 (GCVE-0-2019-17502)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-10-12 19:53 – Updated: 2024-08-05 01:40
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Summary
Hydra through 0.1.8 has a NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash when processing POST requests that lack a Content-Length header. read.c, request.c, and util.c contribute to this. The process_header_end() function calls boa_atoi(), which ultimately calls atoi() on a NULL pointer.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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