CVE-2006-1046 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service in Monopd by sending strings with many escaped characters, leading to excessive CPU and memory consumption.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2006-1046?
CVE-2006-1046 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 7 Mar 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
server.cpp in Monopd 0.9.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a string containing a large number of characters that are escaped when Monopd produces XML output.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1046?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Monopd Monopd.
How do I fix CVE-2006-1046?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2006-1046 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-1046 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1046, GHSA-xm86-62fx-w5xf.