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D-Link DI-524 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA29366
Release Date: 2008-03-25
Popularity: 4,576 views

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

OS:D-Link DI-524

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-1266


Description:
laurent has reported two vulnerabilities in D-Link DI-524, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error in the processing of login requests sent to the web interface can be exploited to trigger a crash via an overly long username.

1) An error in the processing of HTTP headers can be exploited to crash the router's web server via an overly long HTTP header without a value.

Solution:
Restrict access to trusted users only.

Provided and/or discovered by:
laurent

Original Advisory:
http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/router-hacking-challenge/


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