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A vulnerability was found in Qbik WinGate 6.1.4. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. 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:
Qbik WinGate 6.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a DNS request with a self-referencing compressed name pointer, which triggers an infinite loop.
The weakness was published 11/28/2006 by iDefense with iDEFENSE Labs (Website). The advisory is available at labs.idefense.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-4518 since 08/31/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.
It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 23732 (WinGate DNS Compressed Name Pointer DoS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 2812.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (30491) and Tenable (23732).
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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Exploiting
Class: Denial of serviceCWE: CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 23732
Nessus Name: WinGate DNS Compressed Name Pointer DoS
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Timeline
08/31/2006 🔍11/26/2006 🔍
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Sources
Advisory: labs.idefense.com⛔Researcher: iDefense
Organization: iDEFENSE Labs
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-4518 (🔍)
X-Force: 30491
SecurityTracker: 1017284 - WinGate DNS Request Processing Bug Lets Remote Users Deny Service
Vulnerability Center: 13189 - Qbik WinGate DoS via Self-Referencing DNS Request, High
SecurityFocus: 21295 - Qbik WinGate Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 23029 - Qbik WinGate Compressed Name Pointer Denial of Service, Less Critical
Vupen: ADV-2006-4711
Entry
Created: 03/12/2015 22:21Updated: 12/19/2016 20:55
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (55), 12/19/2016 20:55 (20)
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