From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Apr 12 2004 - 13:05:29 CDT

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TITLE:
Crackalaka Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11340

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11340/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
Crackalaka 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
Donato Ferrante has reported a vulnerability in Crackalaka, allowing
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The problem is that Crackalaka fails to handle invalid input sent
directly to the listening port. This causes the process to crash.

This has been reported to affect version 1.0.8.

SOLUTION:
Filter traffic to ensure that only trusted IP addresses can access
the service.

The vendor recommend that the product is only used on local area
networks.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Donato Ferrante

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