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TITLE:
Monkey HTTP Daemon Two Unspecified Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14953

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14953/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/346/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Monkey HTTP Daemon, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An unspecified error within the handling of certain requests can
be exploited to cause a DoS by requesting a file with a 0 bytes
length.

2) An unspecified error in "cgi.c" allows execution of arbitrary
code.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Rob and Tavis of Gentoo Security Team.

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