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NuFW Packet Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA17754
Release Date: 2005-11-29
Last Update: 2005-12-07
Popularity: 4,430 views

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

Software:NuFW 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-3950


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in NuFW, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in packet parsing. This can be exploited by an authenticated user to cause a DoS by sending several specially crafted packets to the firewall.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0.15 and prior, and in development version 1.1.

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.16.
http://www.nufw.org/-Downloads-.html

The development version has been fixed in the CVS repositories.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Changelog:
2005-12-07: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.nufw.org/-News-.html


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