CVE-2007-5824 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200110 http://secunia.com/advisories/28269 http://secunia.com/advisories/30661 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