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Secunia Advisory SA9598

Blubster Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA9598

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Release Date

2003-08-25

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less 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:

Blubster 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Blubster allowing malicious people to cause a Denial of Service on the application.

The problem is that Blubster fails to handle a large number of requests on port 701/tcp. This may cause the appliaction to crash.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.5. However, prior versions may also be affected.

Solution
Use a firewall or personal firewall to block offending IP addresses.

Provided and/or discovered by
Luca Ercoli

Deep Links
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