From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 03:54:28 CDT

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TITLE:
BNBT Authorization Header Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11684

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11684/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
BNBT 7.x

DESCRIPTION:
badpack3t has reported a vulnerability in BNBT, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the
"Util_DecodeHTTPAuth()" function when processing "Authorization:"
headers. This can be exploited to crash the application by sending a
HTTP GET request containing a malformed string in the
"Authorization:" header to a vulnerable system.

Beta 7.5 Release 2 and prior are reportedly affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to Beta 7.5 Release 3:
http://bnbt.go-dedicated.com/bnbt75b-3.zip

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
badpack3t

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://fux0r.phathookups.com/advisory/sp-x12-advisory.txt

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