National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3746
Original release date:08/27/2008
Last revised:08/19/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
neon 0.28.0 through 0.28.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to Digest authentication, Digest domain parameter support, and the parse_domain function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/28/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of neon as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, or 5.
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2420
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [neon] 20080820 neon: release 0.28.3 (SECURITY)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-7661
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: neon-digestauthentication-dos(44511)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020725
External Source: BID
Name: 30710
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080820 Re: CVE request for neon
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080820 Re: CVE request for neon
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080815 CVE request for neon
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:074
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32286
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31687
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31508
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:017
External Source: MLIST
Name: [neon] 20080820 CVE-2008-3746: NULL pointer dereference in Digest domain support
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476571