Cameron Simpson adzapper up to 2006-01-29 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Cameron Simpson adzapper. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-0046. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cameron Simpson adzapper. Affected is an unknown part. 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:

squid_redirect script in adzapper before 2006-01-29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a URL with a large number of trailing / (forward slashes), which might produce inefficient regular expressions.

The bug was discovered 02/09/2006. The weakness was presented 01/29/2006 by Thomas Reifferscheid (Website). The advisory is shared for download at debian.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-0046 since 12/28/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22832 (Debian DSA-966-1 : adzapper - denial of service), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 2006-01-25 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (24640), Tenable (22832), SecurityFocus (BID 16558†), OSVDB (22900†) and Secunia (SA18771†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 22832
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-966-1 : adzapper - denial of service
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OpenVAS ID: 56251
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 966-1 (adzapper)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: adzapper 2006-01-25

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07/22/2007 +281 days 🔍
03/12/2015 +2790 days 🔍
07/22/2019 +1593 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: debian.org
Researcher: Thomas Reifferscheid
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2006-0046 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-0046
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-28668
X-Force: 24640
SecurityFocus: 16558 - Adzapper Squid_Redirect URI Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 18771
OSVDB: 22900 - Ad Zapping With Squid squid_redirect Crafted URL DoS
Vulnerability Center: 15675 - Adzapper Squid_redirect Script Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Cause DoS, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-0491

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 11:11
Updated: 07/22/2019 14:17
Changes: 03/12/2015 11:11 (80), 07/22/2019 14:17 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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