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title: "CVE-2012-5875\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2012-5875

Publication date 18 January 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## 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.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5875?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| forked-daapd | 18.10 cosmic | Not affected |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not affected |
| 17.10 artful | Not affected |
| 17.04 zesty | Not affected |
| 16.10 yakkety | Not affected |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not affected |
| 15.10 wily | Not affected |
| 15.04 vivid | Not affected |
| 14.10 utopic | Not affected |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 13.10 saucy | Not affected |
| 13.04 raring | Not affected |
| 12.10 quantal | Not affected |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not affected |
| 11.10 oneiric | Not affected |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not in release |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release |
| mt-daapd | 18.10 cosmic | Not in release |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not in release |
| 17.10 artful | Not in release |
| 17.04 zesty | Not in release |
| 16.10 yakkety | Not in release |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not in release |
| 15.10 wily | Not in release |
| 15.04 vivid | Not in release |
| 14.10 utopic | Not in release |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 13.10 saucy | Not in release |
| 13.04 raring | Not in release |
| 12.10 quantal | Not in release |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not in release |
| 11.10 oneiric | Not in release |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Not affected |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Not affected |

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* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [ebarretto](https://launchpad.net/~ebarretto)

Not for us: Firefly Media Server

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5875)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5875)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2012-5875)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5875)

### Other references

* <https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23129>
* <http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027917>
* <http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23574>
* <http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-12/0115.html>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5875>