Invision Power Board User Registration Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	16616
Class:	Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Feb 13 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Feb 14 2006 04:43PM
Credit:	SkOd of the SED Security Team is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.0.1
Not Vulnerable:

Invision Power Board User Registration Denial of Service Vulnerability

Invision Power Board is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the application, effectively denying service to legitimate users.

This issue is reported to affect Invision Power Board version 2.0.1; other versions may also be vulnerable.

Invision Power Board User Registration Denial of Service Vulnerability


An exploit is not required.

The following proof of concept exploit is available:

• http://www.securityfocus.com/data/vulnerabilities/exploits/IPB_sedXPL.pl

Invision Power Board User Registration Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Invision Power Board User Registration Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Invision Board Homepage (Invision Power Services)
  
• IPB Register Multiple Users Denial of Service (SkOd)