36403Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/36403 CVE-2009-2732
ntop 3.3.10 - HTTP Basic Authentication Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service
Record summary
CVE-2009-2732 has a selected CVSS score of 5.0; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
The checkHTTPpassword function in http.c in ntop 3.3.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an Authorization HTTP header that lacks a : (colon) character in the base64-decoded string.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBntop 3.3.10 - HTTP Basic Authentication Null Pointer Dereference Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby Brad AntoniewiczNot analyzed1 file
References
6MDVSA-2010:181Vendor advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:181 20090818 ntop <= 3.3.10 Basic Authentication Null Pointer Denial of Servicemailing list
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505862/100/0/threaded 20090818 (Reposting truncated message) Re: ntop <= 3.3.10 Basic Authentication Null Pointer Denial of Servicemailing list
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505876/100/0/threaded ADV-2009-2317vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2317 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2732