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netkit-rwho rwhod Packet Validation Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA14266
Release Date: 2005-02-14
Popularity: 4,977 views

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

Software:netkit-rwho 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-1180


Description:
Vlad902 has reported a vulnerability in netkit-rwho, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the validation of packet sizes in rwhod and can be exploited to crash the listening process. The broadcast handling is not affected.

Successful exploitation is only possible on little endian architectures.

Solution:
Filter traffic to affected systems.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Vlad902

Original Advisory:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-678


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