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vendor:
WorldClient
by:
SecurityFocus
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Denial of Service
119
CWE
Product Name: WorldClient
Affected Version From: N/A
Affected Version To: N/A
Patch Exists: No
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
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2001

Alt-N’s WorldClient Denial of Service

Alt-N's WorldClient is an email webserver that allows its users to retrieve email via HTTP. It is susceptible to denial of service attacks due to an unchecked buffer in the request handler. By supplying a long URL to the server, it can be crashed.

Mitigation:

Ensure that all requests are properly validated and checked for buffer overflows.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/823/info

Alt-N's WorldClient is an email webserver that allows it's users to retrieve email via HTTP. It is susceptible to denial of service attacks due to an unchecked buffer in the request handler. Supplying a long url will crash the server.

http ://target.host:2000/[long string]

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