bugtraq - (Reposting truncated message) Re: ntop <= 3.3.10 Basic Authentication Null Pointer Denial of Service

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Message-ID: <20090818191129.GA32084@securityfocus.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:11:29 -0600
From: dm@...urityfocus.com
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: (Reposting truncated message) Re: ntop <= 3.3.10 Basic Authentication Null Pointer Denial of Service

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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:13:05AM -0600, brad.antoniewicz@...ndstone.com wrote:
> Title: ntop <= 3.3.10 Basic Authentication Null Pointer Denial of Service
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Vendor: ntop
> 
> Vendor URL: www.ntop.org
> 
> Vendor Response: None
> 
> Description:
> 
> A denial of service condition can be reached by specifying an invalid value for the Authorization 
> HTTP header. When ntop recieves this, it attempts to base64 decode the value then split it based on
> a colon. When no colon exists in the decoded string the username is left at its default NULL value. 
> During the authentication process the length of the username is computed via strlen(), which results
> in a segmentation fault when it processes the null value. 
> 
> Code:
> 
> static int checkHTTPpassword(char *theRequestedURL,
>                              int theRequestedURLLen _UNUSED_,
>                              char* thePw, int thePwLen) {
>   char outBuffer[65], tmpOutBuffer[65], *user = NULL, users[LEN_GENERAL_WORK_BUFFER];

-- 
Dave McKinney
Symantec

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