Secunia Security Advisory - laurent has reported a vulnerability in Siemens SpeedStream 6520, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Siemens SpeedStream 6520 HTTP Request Processing Denial of Service
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29325
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29325/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From local network
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Siemens SpeedStream 6520
http://secunia.com/product/18085/
DESCRIPTION:
laurent has reported a vulnerability in Siemens SpeedStream 6520,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing HTTP
requests containing an overly large "Content-Length" header. This can
be exploited to cause the web service to crash via e.g. a specially
crafted HTTP POST request.
SOLUTION:
Restrict network access to the web service.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
laurent
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/router-hacking-challenge/
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