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DCC dccifd Proxy Mode Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA16730
Release Date: 2005-09-07
Popularity: 5,074 views

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

Software:Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) 1.2.x
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) 1.3.x

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Description:
Martin Pala has reported a vulnerability in DCC, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused to due an error in dccifd when receiving an email message without a message body. This may be exploited to crash the dccifd service.

Successful exploitation requires that dccifd is configured to run in proxy mode.

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