Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU49128

Resource exhaustion in postsrsd - CVE-2020-35573

Published: December 23, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU49128

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-35573

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: roehling (Timo Röhling)

Affected software:
postsrsd

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

srs2.c in PostSRSd before 1.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long timestamp tag in an SRS address.

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