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