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RealNetworks Helix Universal Server Denial of Service Vulner

A vulnerability has been reported in Helix Universal Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to insufficient validation of HTTP requests. This can be exploited to cause a vulnerable server to consume a large amount of memory and CPU resources by sending a specially crafted POST request with the "Content-Length" header set to -1.

Download: Helix Universal Server 9.04 for Windows | Linux | Sun Solaris 2.8:

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