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>> ELOG "global" Logbook URL Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : ELOG "global" Logbook URL Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4423
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6318
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-10


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A vulnerability has been identified in ELOG, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to a NULL pointer dereference error when handling a specially crafted URL with a logbook set to "global", which could be exploited by malicious users to crash a vulnerable application, creating a denial of service condition.

Affected Products

ELOG versions prior to 2.6.2-7

Solution

Upgrade to ELOG version 2.6.2-7 :
http://midas.psi.ch/elog/download.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4423
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392016;msg=27

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Jayesh KS and Arun Kethipelly

ChangeLog

2006-11-10 : Initial release

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