Citadel/UX Unlimited Biography Data Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:8192

Info

Citadel/UX Unlimited Biography Data Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 8192
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 15 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 15 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to Carl Livitt <[email protected]> and br00t <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Citadel/UX Citadel/UX 6.0 7
Citadel/UX Citadel/UX 5.90
Not Vulnerable: Citadel/UX Citadel/UX 6.0 8

Discussion

Citadel/UX Unlimited Biography Data Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Citadel/UX does not limit the amount of Biography data that clients can supply. A malicious user of the BBS could exploit this to cause a denial of service by supplying excessive data, potentially using up disk space available to the system user that the BBS is running as.

Exploit / POC

Citadel/UX Unlimited Biography Data Denial Of Service Vulnerability

There is no exploit required.

Solution / Fix

Citadel/UX Unlimited Biography Data Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has addressed this issue in Citadel/UX 6.08.


Citadel/UX Citadel/UX 5.90

Citadel/UX Citadel/UX 6.0 7

References

Citadel/UX Unlimited Biography Data Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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