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CVE-2012-4999 (GCVE-0-2012-4999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-09-19 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:50
VLAI
Summary
Mercury MR804 Router 8.0 3.8.1 Build 101220 Rel.53006nB allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service hang) via a crafted string in HTTP header fields such as (1) If-Modified-Since, (2) If-None-Match, or (3) If-Unmodified-Since. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/48079 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52106 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2012-02-21 00:00
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