CVE-2004-2392 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial of service via crashes or disk consumption in the libuser library.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
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Attackable
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Victim action needed
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Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2004-2392?

CVE-2004-2392 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux, published on 17 Aug 2005.

Official description

libuser 0.51.7 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or disk consumption) via unknown attack vectors, related to read failures and other bugs.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-2392?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux, Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server.

How do I fix CVE-2004-2392?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-2392 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2004-2392 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-2392 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-gcfp-8ccc-4pp3.

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