National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0169

Overview

QuickTime Streaming Server in MacOS X 10.2.8 and 10.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via DESCRIBE requests with long User-Agent fields, which causes an Assert error to be triggered in the BufferIsFull function.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#460350

Name: VU#460350

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/460350

External Source: BID

Name: 9735

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9735

External Source: XF

Name: darwin-describe-request-dos(15291)

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/15291

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 6837

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/6837

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 6826

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/6826

External Source: IDEFENSE

Name: 20040223 Darwin Streaming Server Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=75&type=vulnerabilities

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2004-02-23

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2004/Feb/msg00000.html