FrSIRT - FITELnet Products DNS Requests Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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FITELnet Products DNS Requests Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : FITELnet Products DNS Requests Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-1536
CVE ID : CVE-2006-2078
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-04-26

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in various FITELnet products, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to errors in the "ProxyDNS" and "PKI-Resolver" modules that do not properly handle malformed DNS requests, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash a vulnerable system, creating a denial of service condition. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2006-1505

ChangeLog

2006-04-26 : Initial release

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