CVE-2007-5824

Firefly Media Server <= 0.2.4 - Denial of Service via Malformed Authorization Header

Title source: llm

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2007-5824. PoCs published by nnp.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit sends a malformed HTTP request to the Firefly media server (mt-dappd) to trigger a remote denial-of-service (DoS) condition. It repeatedly sends a crafted 'GET' request with an empty 'Authorization' header, causing the server to crash.

Description

webserver.c in mt-dappd in Firefly Media Server 0.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and daemon crash) via a stats method action to /xml-rpc with (1) an empty Authorization header line, which triggers a crash in the ws_decodepassword function; or (2) a header line without a ':' character, which triggers a crash in the ws_getheaders function.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by nnp · pythondoslinux

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4600

View Code ZIP pw:eip

This exploit sends a malformed HTTP request to the Firefly media server (mt-dappd) to trigger a remote denial-of-service (DoS) condition. It repeatedly sends a crafted 'GET' request with an empty 'Authorization' header, causing the server to crash.

Classification

Working Poc 95%

Attack Type

Dos

Complexity

Trivial

Reliability

Reliable

Target: Firefly media server (mt-dappd)

No auth needed

Prerequisites: Network access to the target server · Firefly media server running and exposed

MITRE ATT&CK