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neon Denial of Service and Spoofing Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA36371
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Release Date:
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2009-08-20
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Popularity:
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960 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Spoofing
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: | neon 0.24.x
neon 0.25.x
neon 0.26.x
neon 0.28.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in neon, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An error when expanding XML entities can be exploited to consume large amounts of memory and cause a crash or hang via a specially crafted XML document.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the expat library is used.
2) An error when processing SSL certificates containing NULL characters embedded in certain certificate fields and can be exploited to spoof certificates for legitimate domains.
This is related to vulnerability #2 in:
SA36093
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 0.28.6.
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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