Vulnerability details :
 
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner HTTP Sniffer Overflow DoS 
 
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Fiche créée le 2005-08-10 10:42:34, dernière mise à jour le 2010-06-01 17:24:25

A remote overflow exists in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner. The 'Sniffer' component fails to perform proper bounds checking resulting in a buffer overflow. With a specially crafted request, a remote attacker can cause the application to crash resulting in a loss of availability.



 
Acunetix Ltd.    2.0  Affected
 
Attack Type :  Denial of Service
 saturation flood, crash, lock up, forced reboot.
 Découvert le 2005-08-07 10:46:32
 
Attack Type :  Input Manipulation
 XSS, SQL injection, file retrieval, directory traversal, overflows, URL encoding.
 
Exploit :  Exploit Public
 Exploit découvert le 2005-08-07 07:00:00
 
Impact :  Loss of Integrity
 Assurance that data is unaltered by unauthorized persons. Examples: XSS, arbitrary command execution, most overflows, most format strings, SQL injection, unauthorized file modification/deletion/creation, remote file inclusion, etc.
 
Impact :  Loss of Availability
 Assurance of timely and reliable access to data. Examples: any DoS attack of any kind, unauthorized file deletion, etc. anything that can cause the availability of a service or information to be impacted.
 
Location :  Remote / Network Access
 If network access if required and exploit can be done remotely.
 
OSVDB :  Security Software
 
OSVDB :  Web Related
 The vulnerability is a web issue and will have an associated security check.
 
 
External refs :
OSVDB  18665
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
 

 

 


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