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Secunia Advisory SA7937

Palm HotSync Manager Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory SA7937
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2003-01-24
   
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact DoS
Where Local system
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
Palm Desktop Software 4.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description

The HotSync Manager program can be crashed. It listens on 14238/tcp (and possibly 14237/tcp), if a malicious user connects to 14238/tcp at writes "OK ATDT<" followed CRLF, then HotSync will return with an error about being out of memory, depending on what you answer the application will either crash or hang indefinetly.


Solution
Any personal firewall or perimeter firewall should block access to this port.

Provided and/or discovered by
Gary H. Jones II

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