CVE-2012-5875

medium

Published 2013-01-18 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

Firefly Media Server 1.0.0.1359 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a (1) crafted Connection HTTP header; a return carriage control character in the (2) Accept Language header, (3) User-agent header, (4) Host header, or (5) protocol version; or a (6) crafted HTTP protocol version.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-23574 dos windows

High-Tech Bridge SA · 2012-12-21

FireFly Mediaserver 1.0.0.1359 - Null Pointer Dereference

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
fireflymediaserver	firefly_media_server	`1.0.0.1359`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.