Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in fallback-reboot, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
fallback-reboot Daemon Status Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14328
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CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From local network
SOFTWARE:
fallback-reboot 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4693/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in fallback-reboot, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error where daemon
status is written to a potentially non-existent terminal and can be
exploited to cause a DoS.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.995.
http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/fallback-reboot/fallback-reboot.tar.gz
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.
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