Vulnerability CVE-2007-5824
Published: 2007-11-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
webserver.c in mt-dappd in Firefly Media Server 0.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and daemon crash) via a stats method action to /xml-rpc with (1) an empty Authorization header line, which triggers a crash in the ws_decodepassword function; or (2) a header line without a ':' character, which triggers a crash in the ws_getheaders function.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.1/10
6.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Firefly -> Media server 

 References:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200110
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=98211&release_id=548679
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1597
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200712-18.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483210/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483211/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483215/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26309
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38241
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38242
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4600
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