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D-Link DI-524 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia

 

D-Link DI-524 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory:
SA29366

Release Date:
2008-03-25

Critical:

Less critical

Impact:
DoS

Where:
From local network

Solution Status:
Unpatched

OS:
D-Link DI-524

CVE reference:
CVE-2008-1266 (Secunia mirror)

Description:
laurent has reported two vulnerabilities in D-Link DI-524, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An error in the processing of login requests sent to the web interface can be exploited to trigger a crash via an overly long username.

1) An error in the processing of HTTP headers can be exploited to crash the router's web server via an overly long HTTP header without a value.

Solution:
Restrict access to trusted users only.

Provided and/or discovered by:
laurent

Original Advisory:
http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/router-hacking-challenge/

Source: D-Link DI-524 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia

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