Secunia Advisory SA37328

UseBB BBCode Parsing Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory SA37328
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Release Date 2009-11-13
Last Update 2009-11-26
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
UseBB 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-4041 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A vulnerability has been reported in UseBB, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an infinite loop when parsing certain BBCodes. This can be exploited to cause a DoS by e.g. posting a message containing specially crafted BBCodes.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.0.10.

Solution
Update to version 1.0.10.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.usebb.net/community/topic-post9775.html#post9775

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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Subject: UseBB BBCode Parsing Denial of Service
 
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