A vulnerability has been identified in Netembryo, which could be exploited by remote attackes to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by a NULL pointer dereference error in the "Url_init()" [utils/url.c] function when processing a specially crafted URL containing the ":" character, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash a vulnerable application, creating a denial of service condition.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Luigi Auriemma.
ChangeLog
2008-01-02 : Initial release
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