Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in GUPnP, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
GUPnP Empty Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35472
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35472/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in GUPnP, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing
subscription or control messages with an empty content. This can be
exploited to cause a crash by sending specially crafted messages to a
vulnerable application.
The vulnerability is reported in version 0.12.7. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.12.8.
http://www.gupnp.org/sources/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Zeeshan Ali
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://git.gupnp.org/cgit.cgi?url=gupnp/tree/NEWS&id=ce714a6700ce03953a2886a66ec57db59205f4e6
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1604
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