Description
The RemotelyAnywhere.exe service in the Remotely Anywhere Server and Workstation 8.0.668 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid Accept-Charset header, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: the service is automatically restarted.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Exploit-DB 1
- RemotelyAnywhere 8.0.668 - 'Accept-Charset' Null Pointer Denial of Service EDB-31378 · dos · Mar 10, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 29296 third-party-advisory
- 20080310 NULL pointer in Remotely Anywhere 8.0.668 mailing-list
- remotelyanywhere-http-dos(41077) vdb-entry
- ADV-2008-0816 vdb-entry
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/remotelynowhere-adv.txt
- 28175 vdb-entry