Apple Darwin Streaming Server 10.2.8 Service BufferIsFull denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Apple Darwin Streaming Server 10.2.8. Affected is the function BufferIsFull of the component Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

QuickTime Streaming Server in MacOS X 10.2.8 and 10.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via DESCRIBE requests with long User-Agent fields, which causes an Assert error to be triggered in the BufferIsFull function.

The bug was discovered 12/08/2003. The weakness was presented 02/23/2004 by iDefense with iDEFENSE as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared for download at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2004-0169. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details and a exploit are known.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is shared for download at packetstormsecurity.nl. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 77 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 36968 (FreeBSD : Darwin Streaming Server denial-of-service vulnerability (c7cad0f0-671a-11d8-bdeb-000a95bc6fae)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 2442.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (15291) and Tenable (36968). See 82044 for similar entry.

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Class: Denial of service
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Nessus ID: 36968
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : Darwin Streaming Server denial-of-service vulnerability (c7cad0f0-671a-11d8-bdeb-000a95bc6fae)
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OpenVAS ID: 52512
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: DarwinStreamingServer
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Snort ID: 2442
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Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: kb.cert.org
Researcher: iDefense
Organization: iDEFENSE
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-0169 (🔍)
X-Force: 15291
Vulnerability Center: 21912 - Apple QuickTime Streaming Server 4.1.3 Remote DoS Vulnerability via DESCRIBE Requests, Medium
SecurityFocus: 9735 - Apple QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server DESCRIBE Request Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 10956 - Quicktime/Darwin Streaming Server DESCRIBE Request Denial of Service, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 6826 - Apple Darwin Streaming Server User-Agent Overflow DoS

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 10/15/2014 15:31
Updated: 09/03/2019 06:53
Changes: 10/15/2014 15:31 (81), 09/03/2019 06:53 (11)
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