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Date: Fri Nov 16 2007 - 02:17:04 CST

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TITLE:
Red Hat Conga "ricci" Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27611

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27611/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
Red Hat Conga 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/16521/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to the "ricci" daemon incorrectly
handling multiple concurrent connections. This can be exploited to
cause a DoS by establishing ten connections and continuously
connecting or sending data at unspecified time intervals.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.10.0-6.

SOLUTION:
Version 0.10.0-6 is available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Mark J. Cox, Red Hat Security Response Team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336101
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0640.html

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