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TITLE:
neon "parse_domain()" Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31508

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31508/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
neon 0.28.x
http://secunia.com/product/19630/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in neon, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error
within the "parse_domain()" function in src/ne_auth.c. This can be
exploited to cause a DoS by tricking an application using the library
into connecting to a malicious server.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.28.0, 0.28.1 and 0.28.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.28.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Yves-Alexis in a Debian bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2008-August/000038.html

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476571

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