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CVE-2004-0169

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—

QuickTime Streaming Server in MacOS X 10.2.8 and 10.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via DESCRIBE requests with long User-Agent fields, which causes an Assert error to be triggered in the BufferIsFull function.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Apple — Darwin Streaming Server

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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