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DCC dccifd Proxy Mode Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16730
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Release Date:
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2005-09-07
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| 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.
Solution:
Update to version 1.3.16.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Martin Pala
Original Advisory:
http://www.rhyolite.com/pipermail/dcc/2005/002770.html
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2 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. DCC SOCKS Denial Of Service Vulnerability
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2. DCC Unspecified Manipulation of Data
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