CVE-2008-1278

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The RemotelyAnywhere.exe service in the Remotely Anywhere Server and Workstation 8.0.668 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid Accept-Charset header, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: the service is automatically restarted.

Affected products

Remotelyanywhere: through 8.0.668

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/remotelynowhere-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29296
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489354/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28175
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0816/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41077
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/remotelynowhere-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29296
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489354/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28175
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0816/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41077

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