PopMessenger Base64 encoding denial of service
| popmessenger-base64-dos (17465) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
PopMessenger is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by a vulnerability in the Base64 encoding. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted message containing illegal characters and send it to a victim multiple times to cause PopMessenger to crash.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of PopMessenger (1.60 dated after September 20, 2004 or later), available from the PopMessenger Web site. See References.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Sep 21 2004 - 13:48:31 CDT : Broadcast crash in Popmessenger 1.60 (before 20 Sep 2004).
- PopMessenger Web site: LAN chat software. Messenger for local network (LANs)..
- BID-11230: LeadMind Pop Messenger Illegal Character Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-1698: The Base64 function in PopMessenger 1.60 (before 20 Sep 2004) and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via invalid characters in a message, which causes several alert dialogs to be displayed and leads to a crash.
- SA12612: Pop Messenger Invalid Character Denial of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- LeadMind Development PopMessenger 1.60 and prior
Reported:
Sep 21, 2004
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