RemotelyAnywhere 'Accept-Charset' Parameter NULL Pointer Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	28175
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-1278
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Mar 10 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:32PM
Credit:	Luigi Auriemma discovered this issue.
Vulnerable:	RemotelyAnywhere RemotelyAnywhere Workstation Edition 8.0.668 RemotelyAnywhere RemotelyAnywhere Server Edition 8.0.668
Not Vulnerable:

RemotelyAnywhere 'Accept-Charset' Parameter NULL Pointer Denial Of Service Vulnerability

RemotelyAnywhere is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input.

Exploiting this issue will cause the server to copy data to a NULL pointer, which will crash the server, denying access to legitimate users.

This issue affects RemotelyAnywhere Server and Workstation 8.0.688; other versions may also be affected.

RemotelyAnywhere 'Accept-Charset' Parameter NULL Pointer Denial Of Service Vulnerability

The following HTTP request is sufficient to trigger the issue:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept-Charset: boom

RemotelyAnywhere 'Accept-Charset' Parameter NULL Pointer 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].

RemotelyAnywhere 'Accept-Charset' Parameter NULL Pointer Denial Of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Vendor Homepage (RemotelyAnywhere)
  
• Luigi Auriemma (NULL pointer in Remotely Anywhere 8.0.668)