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                       Secunia Research 23/04/2003 

          - Xeneo Web Server URL Encoding Denial of Service -

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Table of Contents 
1....................................................Affected Software 
2.............................................................Severity 
3.....................................Vendor's Description of Software 
4.........................................Description of Vulnerability 
5.............................................................Solution 
6...........................................................Time Table 
7..............................................................Credits 
8........................................................About Secunia 
9.........................................................Verification 

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1) Affected Software 

Xeneo Web Server 2.2.9 and prior. 

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2) Severity 

Rating:  Moderately critical 
Impact:  Denial of Service 
Where:   From Remote 

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"Xeneo Web Server is designed to deliver high performance and
reliability. It can be easily extended and customized to host 
everything from a personal web site to advanced web applications that
use ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, Perl, CGI and ISAPI." 

"Key Xeneo Web Server features include: multiple domain support,
integrated Windows authentication, scripting interface, enhanced 
filter support, ISAPI, CGI, ASP, SSL, intelligent file caching and
more." 

Vendor: 
http://www.northernsolutions.com

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4) Description of Vulnerability 

A vulnerability in Xeneo Web Server can be exploited by malicious 
people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on the web service. 

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of 
requests including a malformed URL encoding representation of a 
character. By sending a request like the following, "xeneo.exe" will 
crash with a runtime error. 

Example: 
http://[victim]/%A 

The web service needs to be restarted manually before functionality 
is restored. 

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5) Solution 

The vendor quickly responded by releasing version 2.2.10. 

http://www.northernsolutions.com/index.php?view=product&sec=download&id=1 

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6) Time Table 

22/04/2003 - Vulnerability discovered. 
22/04/2003 - Vendor notified. 
23/04/2003 - Vendor response. 
23/04/2003 - Public disclosure. 

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7) Credits 

Discovered by Carsten H. Eiram, Secunia Research. 

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9) Verification 

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website: 
http://www.secunia.com/secunia_research/2003-5/

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