Home / vulnerabilities Secunia Security Advisory 44580
Posted on 14 June 2011
Source : packetstormsecurity.org Link
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Join Secunia @ FIRST Conference, 12-17 June, Hilton Vienna, Austria
See to the presentation "The Dynamics and Threats of End-Point Software Portfolios" by Secunia's Research Analyst Director, Stefan Frei.
Read more:
http://conference.first.org/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
TITLE:
Libvoikko NULL Character Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44580
VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/44580/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=44580
RELEASE DATE:
2011-06-14
DISCUSS ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/44580/#comments
AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
* Last Update
* Popularity
* Comments
* Criticality Level
* Impact
* Where
* Solution Status
* Operating System / Software
* CVE Reference(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/44580/
ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA:
* Authentication Level
* Report Reliability
* Secunia PoC
* Secunia Analysis
* Systems Affected
* Approve Distribution
* Remediation Status
* Secunia CVSS Score
* CVSS
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=44580
ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI:
* AUTOMATED SCANNING
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Libvoikko, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) in
an application using the library.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the application
when handling certain input strings via the Python and Java
interfaces and can be exploited to cause a crash via a string
containing NULL characters.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.2.1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.2.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://voikko.sourceforge.net/releases.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/
DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/
EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/
EXTENDED SOLUTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/
EXPLOIT:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.
Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/
Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/
Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories
http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org
----------------------------------------------------------------------
