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TITLE:
DCC dccifd Proxy Mode Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16730

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16730/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) 1.2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3388/
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) 1.3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5673/

DESCRIPTION:
Martin Pala has reported a vulnerability in DCC, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused to due an error in dccifd when receiving
an email message without a message body. This may be exploited to
crash the dccifd service.

Successful exploitation requires that dccifd is configured to run in
proxy mode.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.16.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Martin Pala

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.rhyolite.com/pipermail/dcc/2005/002770.html

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