SonicWall SOHO Firewall Vulnerable to DoS Attack

A DoS attack has been discovered in the web administration interface of Sonicwall Firewalls

Steve Manzuik

November 28, 2000

1 Min Read
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Reported November 29, 2000 by Anitfork Research

VERSIONS AFFECTED

DESCRIPTIONA Denial of Service (DoS) attack has been discovered in Sonicwall's SOHO Firewall product.  

Demonstration

By connecting to the administrative web page and sending a long string as the username a malicious attacker could cause the firewall to stop responding to internal requests. 

VENDOR RESPONSE

Sonicwall has been notified and will be repairing this problem in the next firmware upgrade.

CREDITDiscovered by Antifork Research

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