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DDIVRT-2008-18 Orb Denial of Service



Title
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DDIVRT-2008-18 Orb Denial of Service

Severity
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Medium

Date Discovered
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October 21st 2008

Discovered By
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Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research Team
Credit: Steven James and r@b13$

Vulnerability Description
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Orb Networks' Orb media server is vulnerable to a denial of service condition. 
Sending malformed http requests may crash the service denying service to 
legitimate users.

Solution Description
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Use firewall rules to restrict access to authorized users of the Orb server.
This issue has been fixed in version 2.01.0025, which is available on Orb's 
website.

Tested Systems / Software (with versions)
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Orb version 2.01.0017 on Windows XP Pro SP2
Nullsoft Winamp Remote Server Beta (featuring Orb version 2.01.0013) on Windows 
XP Pro SP2
Orb version 2.01.0020 on Windows XP Pro SP2

Vendor Contact
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Orb Networks
http://www.orb.com