18491 : FlexPHPNews news.php Large Value DoS
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
3	600	almost 8 years ago	about 5 years ago	0 times	100%

Timeline

Disclosure Date
2005-07-24

Description

FlexPHPNews contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when a remote attacker provides an overly long value to the 'prenumber' and/or 'nextnumber' variables in the 'news.php' script, which causes the application to consume all available CPU resources resulting in a loss of availability.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Currently, there are no known upgrades, patches, or workarounds available to correct this issue.

Products

China-on-site Studio Networks Technology Development Co., Ltd

FlexPHPNews

0.0.4

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 16300
Related OSVDB ID: 18486 18487 18488 18489 18490 18492
ISS X-Force ID: 21644
Other Advisory URL: http://rgod.altervista.org/flex.html
Vendor URL: http://www.china-on-site.com/flexphpnews/

Credit

rgod - rgod's Site

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