Worldspan for Windows Gateway Res Manager Port 17990 Malformed Request DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 11049

Synopsis

The remote service is vulnerable to denial of service.

Description

It was possible to crash the Worldspan gateway by sending illegal data.

An attacker may use this attack to make this service crash continuously.

Solution

This produce was not patched by the vendor, its use should be discontinued.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2002/Jul/49

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 11049

File Name: worldspan_gw_DoS.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: remote

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 7/19/2002

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/4/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1029

BID: 5169