TITLE:
Emdros MQL Parser Memory Leak Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14204

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14204/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Emdros 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/3877/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Emdros, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerabilities are caused due to memory leaks within the MQL
parser and can be exploited by passing extremely large MQL statements
with syntax errors to the mql program.

Successful exploitation may consume large amounts of available
memory.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.1.22.
http://emdros.org/download.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1116935&group_id=37219&atid=419458

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