BNBT EasyTracker Malformed Request DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3197

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

Description

The remote host is running BNBT EasyTracker, a packaged BitTorrent tracker installer for Windows. The remote version of BNBT EasyTracker fails to properly handle malformed HTTP requests, making it prone to denial of service attacks. An attacker can crash the application by sending a request with a header line consisting of only a ':'.

Solution

No solution is known at this time.

See Also

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/409621

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 3197

Family: Web Servers

Published: 8/30/2005

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 19548

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:U/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:trevor_hogan:bnbt

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2806

BID: 14700