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Apache Log4net Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA19241
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Release Date:
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2006-03-14
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Popularity:
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6,567 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: | Log4net 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-0743
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Description:
Sebastian Krahmer has reported a vulnerability in Log4net, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in LocalSyslogAppender. This can be exploited to cause memory corruption in an application that uses LocalSyslogAppender and may cause the application to crash.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2.9. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.2.10 in the CVS repositories.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Sebastian Krahmer
Original Advisory:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-67
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