[UPH-07-01] UnprotectedHex.com security advisory [07-01] Discovered by nnp Discovered : 1 August 2007 Reported to the vendor : 13 October 2007 Fixed by vendor : 21 October 2007 Vulnerability class : Remote DoS Affected product : mt-dappd/Firefly Media Server Version : <= 0.2.4 Product details: www.fireflymediaserver.org/ ''' The purpose of this project is built the best server software to serve digital music to the Roku Soundbridge and iTunes; to be able to serve the widest variety of digital music content over the widest range of devices ''' File/Function/line : webserver.c/ws_getheaders/631 Cause : Null pointer dereference. Any header that contains a line (not the first line) that does not contain a ':' will result in a null pointer dereference as strsep(&last, ':') will assign NULL to the variable 'last' and the code then attempts to dereference 'last'. strsep(&last,":"); if(last==first) { DPRINTF(E_WARN,L_WS,"Thread %d: Invalid header: %s\n", pwsc->threadno,first); } else { while(*last==' ') last++; Proof of concept code : Yes