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Remote PC Access Server Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA8888
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Release Date:
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2003-05-29
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Popularity:
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5,309 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Remote PC Access Server 2.x
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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Remote PC Access Server, which allows malicious users to crash the server.
The problem is that the server can't handle when a client returns unexpected authentication data.
This has been reported to exist in version 2.2, but it may exist in earlier and later versions as well.
Solution:
Version 3.1 has been released to fix this issue.
Secunia recommend that you do not use this kind of software directly over the Internet. In general these protocol are not very robust. Use VPN or similar to restrict access to such services from the Internet.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Yaron Tal
Original Advisory:
http://www.ytech.co.il/advisories/rpca/rpcaccess.htm
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