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Tenes Empanadas Graciela Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19134
Release Date: 2006-03-06
Last Update: 2007-03-15
Popularity: 6,336 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Tenes Empanadas Graciela (TEG) 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1150


Description:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Tenes Empanadas Graciela (TEG), which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an off-by-one error within the handling of the nickname supplied by the user. This can be exploited to crash the server by sending the same nickname (with 50 characters), from two or more clients.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.11.1 and prior.

Solution:
Update to version 0.11.2.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Luigi Auriemma

Changelog:
2006-03-16: Added CVE reference.
2006-03-21: Updated "Solution Status" and "Solution" sections.
2007-03-15: Updated "Solution" section.

Original Advisory:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/tegob1-adv.txt


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