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TITLE:
Smart Cache Forwarder Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14746

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14746/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Smart Cache 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4881/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the forwarder, which
can be exploited to cause Smart Cache to enter an infinite loop,
consume all available threads and potentially crash.

Successful exploitation requires that the person is allowed to use
the proxy.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.92.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=88829

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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