Description
Unspecified vulnerability in NewzCrawler 1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application instability) via certain invalid strings in the URL attribute of an ENCLOSURE element, as demonstrated by a "%s" sequence, a "%Y" sequence, a "%%" sequence, and an "n," sequence.
Public exploits
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Exploit-DB 1
- NewzCrawler 1.8 - invalid string Remote Denial of Service EDB-3930 · dos · May 15, 2007 · verified
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References
- 3930 exploit
- 39768 vdb-entry
- newzcrawler-enclosure-dos(34350) vdb-entry
- 23994 vdb-entry