[SA13040] Caudium HTTP Request Processing Denial of Service

TITLE:
Caudium HTTP Request Processing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13040

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Caudium 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4196/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing HTTP
requests. This can be exploited to crash the service by sending a
specially crafted HTTP request to the web server.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.4.4 RC2.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8825&package_id=8913&release_id=278541

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1028622&group_id=8825&atid=108825

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