Macromedia Flash Communication Server 1.0 Flash Player denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Macromedia Flash Communication Server 1.0 (Multimedia Player Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Flash Player. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX 1.0 and 1.5 does not sufficiently validate certain RTMP data, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (instability or crash), as demonstrated using an alpha release build of Flash Player 8.5 (build 133).

The bug was discovered 11/15/2005. The weakness was released 11/15/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at macromedia.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-3901 since 11/29/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

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 vulnerability database at X-Force (23082). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at 27175.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499

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Remote: Yes

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Vendor: macromedia.com

Advisory: macromedia.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2005-3901 (🔍)
X-Force: 23082
SecurityTracker: 1015219
Vulnerability Center: 11044 - Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX DoS due to Improper RTMP Data Validation, Medium
SecurityFocus: 15437 - Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX RTMP Data Validation Vulnerability
Secunia: 17612 - Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX Denial of Service, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 20869 - Macromedia Flash/Breeze Communication Server Malformed RTMP Data DoS

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Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 06/16/2019 14:26
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (64), 06/16/2019 14:26 (8)
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