CVE-2007-1653 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a kernel panic and denial of service in GlowWorm FW via malicious DNS responses triggering infinite recursion.
- 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-2007-1653?
CVE-2007-1653 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 24 Mar 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
GlowWorm FW before 1.5.3b4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via certain DNS responses that trigger infinite recursion in TrueDNS packet parsing, as originally observed with certain login.yahoo.com responses.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-1653?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Glowworm Glowworm.
How do I fix CVE-2007-1653?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-1653 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-2007-1653 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-1653 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-92h8-xrqx-3w9v.