[Secure-testing-team] Bug#543312: CVE-2009-2732: Basic Authentication Null Pointer Denial of Service

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Package: ntop
Severity: serious
Tags: security

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for ntop.

CVE-2009-2732[0]:
| The checkHTTPpassword function in http.c in ntop 3.3.10 and earlier
| allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer
| dereference and daemon crash) via an Authorization HTTP header that
| lacks a : (colon) character in the base64-decoded string.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2732
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-2732

Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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