Fenice Content-Length denial of service
| fenice-contentlength-dos (26080) |  Low Risk |
Description:
Fenice is vulnerable to a denial of service. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request with a long Content-Length field in the RTSP_msg-len function to cause the server to crash.
Platforms Affected:
- (LS)³, Fenice 1.10 and prior
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Fenice (1.11 or later), available from the Fenice Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- Fenice Web site, Fenice - Open Media Streaming Server | (LS)³ at http://streaming.polito.it/server.
- Luigi Auriemma Security Advisory 23 Apr 2006, Buffer-overflow and crash in Fenice OMS 1.10 at http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/fenicex-adv.txt.
- BID-17678: Fenice Remote Buffer Overflow and Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-2023: Integer overflow in the RTSP_msg_len function in rtsp/RTSP_msg_len.c in Fenice 1.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large HTTP Content-Length value, which leads to an invalid memory access.
- OSVDB ID: 24882: Fenice OMS Server HTTP RTSP_msg_len Negative Value DoS
- SA19770: Fenice HTTP Request Handling Two Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-1491: Fenice HTTP Request Handling Multiple Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
Reported:
Apr 23, 2006
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