CVE-2006-1648 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in SMART SynchronEyes by sending a malicious packet to the Teacher discovery port, triggering excessive memory consumption.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-1648?
CVE-2006-1648 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Apr 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
SMART SynchronEyes Student and Teacher 6.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a certain packet to the Teacher discovery port that causes SynchronEyes to connect to the attacker's machine and read a value that is used as a parameter to malloc.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1648?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Smart Technologies Synchroneyes.
How do I fix CVE-2006-1648?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-1648 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-2006-1648 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1648 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j5fm-79ch-j7w9.