NewzCrawler Enclosure Element Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	23994
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2007-2722
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 15 2007 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:39PM
Credit:	gbr is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:
Not Vulnerable:

NewzCrawler Enclosure Element Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

NewzCrawler is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing an RSS feed with an invalid string.

A remote attacker can exploit this issue to crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users.

This issue affects NewzCrawler 1.8; other versions may also be affected.

NewzCrawler Enclosure Element Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting user to open a malicious RSS feed.

The following proof-of-concept RSS feed is available.

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/23994.xml

NewzCrawler Enclosure Element Remote 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 if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

NewzCrawler Enclosure Element Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Newz Crawler (ADC Software)