PostBoard encoded BBCode tag denial of service
| postboard-bbcode-dos (8883) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
PostBoard is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A remote attacker could post a message containing malformed BBCode tags, that when encoded to HTML, could cause database corruption or excessive use of memory resources. The server must be restarted to regain normal functionality.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of May 1, 2013.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Apr 16 2002 - 18:25:53 CDT: Multiple Vulnerabilities in PostBoard.
- NukeAddOn Web site: Post-Nuke Add-On :: The Future of the Web.
- BID-4562: PostBoard BBCode Denial Of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2002-0534: PostBoard 2.0.1 and earlier with BBcode allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) and corrupt the database via null \0 characters within [code] tags.
- OSVDB ID: 14414: PostBoard BBcode Null Character CPU Exhaustion DoS
Platforms Affected:
- PostNuke PostBoard 2.0
- PostNuke PostBoard 2.0.1
Reported:
Apr 16, 2002
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