Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 21, 2009· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2009-2732
CVE-2009-2732
Description
The checkHTTPpassword function in http.c in ntop 3.3.10 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an Authorization HTTP header that lacks a : (colon) character in the base64-decoded string.
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