CVE-2006-4518

CVE-2006-4518 affects Qbik WinGate 6.1.4 and earlier. The vulnerability arises in processing DNS requests with compressed name pointers: a self-referencing pointer can trigger an infinite loop, causing the WinGate proxy to consume 100% of CPU and effectively deny service. Exploitation is unauthen...

iDefense Security Advisory 11.26.06: Qbik WinGate Compressed Name Pointer Denial of Service Vulnerability

Qbik WinGate Compressed Name Pointer Denial of Service Vulnerability iDefense Security Advisory 11.26.06 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Nov 26, 2006 I. BACKGROUND Qbik WinGate is an Internet gateway and communications server. It includes functionality related to efficientl...