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TITLE:
Firefly Media Server "Content-Length" Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29919

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29919/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Firefly Media Server 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/18430/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Firefly Media Server, which can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS or to potentially
compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a calculation error within the
"ws_getpostvars()" function in src/webserver.c. This can be exploited
to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a POST request containing a
negative "Content-Length" value.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.2.4.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.2.4.2.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98211&package_id=105189&release_id=593465

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Nico Golde, Debian security team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=593465&group_id=98211

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