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Timbuktu Buffer Overflow Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA13250
Release Date: 2004-11-19
Last Update: 2004-11-20
Popularity: 5,951 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Timbuktu Pro 7.x for Mac OS

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Description:
Corsaire has reported a vulnerability in Timbuktu for Mac OS, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the communication handling. This can be exploited to crash the process via a buffer overflow by sending some specially crafted data on multiple concurrent connections.

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