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ELOG Long Parameter Value Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA18124
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Release Date:
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2005-12-20
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Last Update:
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2006-12-06
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Popularity:
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7,078 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | ELOG 2.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-4439
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Description:
sk has discovered a vulnerability in ELOG, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in "elogd" when handling an overly long value sent to the "cmd" and "mode" parameters. This can be exploited to crash the service.
Example:
http://[host]/[logbook]/?cmd=[long value]
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.6.0 - compiled from source on Fedora Core 4 with the default settings - and in 2.6.1-1.
Solution:
Update to version 2.6.1-3.
Provided and/or discovered by:
sk, GroundZero Security Research and Software Development.
Changelog:
2006-01-13: Added CVE reference.
2006-12-06: Updated Solution with information about vendor update.
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