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Secunia Advisory SA8763

EServ Memory Leak Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA8763
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Release Date 2003-05-12
   
Popularity 5,966 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
EServ 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in EServ, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a memory leak in the connection routine, which can result in consumption of all available memory resources. This can be exploited by establishing many connections to EServ, which will leak between 8 and 32 KB for each established connection.

Reportedly, an average server can be crashed after about 50,000 connections, which will leak a total between 390.5 MB to 1.52 GB of memory.

An exploit has been released.


Solution
Reportedly, it was not possible to get in contact with the vendor.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Matthew Murphy

Deep Links
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