CVE-2004-0169

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Apple Darwin Streaming Server: 4.1.3

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2004/Feb/msg00000.html
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=75&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/460350
http://www.osvdb.org/6826
http://www.osvdb.org/6837
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9735
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15291
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2004/Feb/msg00000.html
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=75&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/460350
http://www.osvdb.org/6826
http://www.osvdb.org/6837

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