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[SA16179] Hobbit Monitor Denial of Service Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Jul 25 2005 - 10:53:34 CDT


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TITLE:
Hobbit Monitor Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16179

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16179/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
Hobbit Monitor 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/5433/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in hobbitd when
processing certain messages and can be exploited to crash the daemon.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.1.0.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Vernon Everett and Stefan Loos.

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