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OpenLink Virtuoso Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA31140
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Release Date:
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2008-07-18
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Popularity:
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2,165 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | OpenLink Virtuoso (Open-Source Edition) 5.x
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in OpenLink Virtuoso, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) Input validation errors in certain built-in SQL functions can be exploited to cause a crash via e.g. specially crafted queries over the SPARQL protocol.
2) Unauthorised access to tables with application specified policy functions can be exploited to cause a crash.
3) An error when handling nested subqueries can be exploited to cause a stack overflow.
Other issues which may be security related have also been reported.
Solution:
Update to version 5.0.7.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161622
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=614029
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