basher13 has discovered a vulnerability in COOL! Remote Control, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to error in handling certain malformed requests and can be exploited to crash the server via a malicious request sent to port 11980/tcp.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.12. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Restrict access to the service.

Provided and/or discovered by
basher13

Original Advisory
http://k.domaindlx.com/shellcore/advisories.asp?bug_report=display&infamous_group=90

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