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TITLE:
Libnids NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39225

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39225/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error
in src/ip_fragment.c, which can be exploited to crash an application
using the library by sending specially crafted network traffic.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.24.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.24.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/libnids/libnids/1.24/libnids-1.24.releasenotes.txt

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