[Full-disclosure] APPLE Darwin Streaming Server Web Admin Remote Denial of Serivce

APPLE Darwin Streaming Server Web Admin Remote Denial of Serivce

By Sowhat
2005.07.13
http://secway.org/Advisory/AD20050713.txt

Vendor
Apple Inc.

Product Affected
Darwin Streaming Server 5.5 and below (for Win32)

CVE-ID: CAN-2005-2195

OverView:

Darwin Streaming Server is server technology allowing for the streaming
of QuickTime data to clients across the Internet using the industry
standard RTP and RTSP protocols.

Details:

Darwin Streaming Server is distributed with a web-based
admin application that allows it to be configured through a web
browser. Version 5.5 and below of the Windows 2000/2003 Server distribution
of this package is vulnerable to a denial of service.

Exploitation of this flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to prevent
legitimate usage.

The vulnerability specifically occurs upon the attacker Requesting
a MS-DOS device name (e.g. AUX) over HTTP (port 1220) with a .cgi extention.

please note that this is not the CAN-2003-0421 And CAN-2003-0502 reported
bye Rapid7 in 2003,
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0015.html

CAN-2003-0421 GET /AUX HTTP/1.0
CAN-2003-0502 GET /…/AUX HTTP/1.0
This time , GET /AUX.cgi HTTP/1.0

Vendor Response:

Vendor notified on 2005.06.27 via email to [email protected]
Vendor responsed on 2005.06.28 AND published the patched version 5.5.1
on 2005.07.12

Please update to Darwin Streaming Server 5.5.1
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/

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