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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Dave Lawrence XTux 2001-06-01. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

XTux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via random inputs in the initial connection.

The weakness was released 07/26/2002 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at online.securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2002-0431. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 11016 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (8422) and Tenable (11016).

Productinfo

Vendor

• Dave Lawrence

Name

• XTux

Version

• 2001-06-01

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.0

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource consumption
CWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 11016

OpenVAS ID: 11016
OpenVAS Name: xtux server detection
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

01/01/2002 🔍
03/09/2002 +67 days 🔍
07/26/2002 +139 days 🔍
07/26/2002 +0 days 🔍
09/18/2003 +419 days 🔍
07/22/2014 +3960 days 🔍
05/13/2019 +1756 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: online.securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2002-0431 (🔍)
X-Force: 8422
Vulnerability Center: 2145 - DoS in Xtux Server Garbage, Medium
SecurityFocus: 4260 - XTux Server Garbage Denial of Service Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 07/22/2014 20:05
Updated: 05/13/2019 09:17
Changes: 07/22/2014 20:05 (64), 05/13/2019 09:17 (1)
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