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TITLE:
HAVP Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31494

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31494/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
HAVP 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/19578/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in HAVP, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to the application improperly
handling client requests. This can be exploited to trigger the
execution of an infinite loop and hang the server by requesting
multiple connections to unresponsive servers.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.88. Prior versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.89.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Peter Warasin.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.server-side.de/index.htm

https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=487CDF51.5060201%40endian.com

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