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Adobe JRun IIS 6 Connector Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA24488
Release Date: 2007-03-14
Popularity: 8,008 views

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

Software:Adobe ColdFusion MX 7.x
Macromedia ColdFusion MX 6.x
Macromedia Jrun 4.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1278


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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within JRun’s IIS connector when handling certain requests for resources. This can be exploited via e.g. requesting a file within the web root and then performing certain actions.

The vulnerability is reported in the following products with IIS 6:
* JRun 4 Updater 6
* Adobe ColdFusion MX 7.0 Enterprise Edition, if installed as the "Multi-Server" option
* Adobe ColdFusion MX 6.1 Enterprise, if installed with the "J2EE" option and deployed on JRun 4.0 Updater 6

Adobe ColdFusion MX 6.1 and 7.0 Standard editions are not affected by this issue.

Solution:
Apply hotfix (see the vendor's advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Shoji Kamiichi, NEC.

Original Advisory:
Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-07.html


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