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liveMedia -- DoS vulnerability

Description:

The live555 development team reports:

Fixed a bounds-checking error in "parseRTSPRequestString()" caused by an int vs. unsigned problem.

The function which handles the incoming queries from the clients is affected by a vulnerability which allows an attacker to crash the server remotely using the smallest RTSP query possible to use.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: liveMedia -- DoS vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>