TITLE:
fprobe Weak Hash Functions Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14072

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14072/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
fprobe 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/3947/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to weak hash implementations for the
xor8, xor16, and crc16 hash functions. This may be exploited to cause
a vulnerable service to consume a large amount of CPU resources by
sending some specially crafted data generating a large amount of hash
collisions.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.1.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63535

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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