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Citrix NetScaler / Access Gateway Denial of Service Vulnerability


Secunia ID

SA37271

Release Date

06 Nov 2009

Criticality

Moderately Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in multiple Citrix products, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the "URL Transform", "Application Firewall", and "AGEE Clientless VPN" features and can be exploited to cause a DoS.

The vulnerability is reported in firmware versions 9.0 prior to build 70.5 and firmware versions 9.1 prior to build 96.4 of the following products:
* Citrix NetScaler
* Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition
* Citrix NetScaler Application Firewall

Solution

Update to the latest firmware version.

Citrix NetScaler and Citrix NetScaler Application Firewall:
https://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/results.asp?productID=21679

Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition:
https://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/results.asp?productID=15005

Reported by

The vendor credits Rob Carter and Nathan McFeters of Ernst & Young's Advanced Security Center, and Neel Mehta of Google Security Team.

Original Advisory

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX123060