Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in LIVE555 Media Server, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "parseRTSPRequestString()" function when processing a small RTSP query, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application, creating a denial of service condition.

Affected Products

LIVE555 Media Server version 2007.11.01 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to LIVE555 Media Server version 2007.11.18 :
http://www.live555.com/mediaServer/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3939
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/live555x-adv.txt

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Luigi Auriemma.

ChangeLog

2007-11-21 : Initial release

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