SynchronEyes packet denial of service
| synchroneyes-packet-dos (25663) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
SynchronEyes is vulnerable to a denial of service. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet to port 5496/tcp to cause the application to consume a large amount of memory possibly resulting in a denial of service.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Apr 04 2006 - 00:42:18 CDT: SMART Technologies SynchronEyes Remote Denial of Services.
- SynchronEyes Web site: SMART - SynchronEyes classroom management software Overview.
- BID-17373: SMART Technologies SynchronEyes Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-1648: SMART SynchronEyes Student and Teacher 6.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a certain packet to the Teacher discovery port that causes SynchronEyes to connect to the attacker's machine and read a value that is used as a parameter to malloc.
- OSVDB ID: 24392: SynchronEyes Crafted Packet Memory Consumption DoS
- SA19535: SynchronEyes Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1015869: SynchronEyes Packet Processing Bugs Let Remote Users Deny Service
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-1241: SMART Technologies SynchronEyes Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- Smart Technologies SynchronEyes 6.0
Reported:
Apr 04, 2006
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