CVE-2009-2732 Information

Description

The checkHTTPpassword function in http.c in ntop 3.3.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an Authorization HTTP header that lacks a : (colon) character in the base64-decoded string.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/36403 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:181 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505862/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505876/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2317