PT-2009-5111 · Ntop · Ntop

Published 2009-08-20 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2009-2732

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ntop versions 3.3.10 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a daemon crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. This occurs when an Authorization HTTP header lacks a : (colon) character in the base64-decoded string, specifically targeting the checkHTTPpassword function.

Recommendations For ntop versions 3.3.10 and earlier, consider disabling the checkHTTPpassword function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-2732

Affected Products

Ntop

References · 8

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/33176 · Exploit
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2317 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:181 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36403 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2732 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/505876/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/505862/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2732 · Note