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1.9 KiB
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1.9 KiB
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="200402-03">
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<title>Monkeyd Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
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<synopsis>
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A bug in get_real_string() function allows for a Denial of Service attack to be
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launched against the webserver.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">monkeyd</product>
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<announced>2004-02-11</announced>
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<revised count="01">2004-02-11</revised>
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<bug>41156</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="www-servers/monkeyd" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">0.8.2</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">0.8.2</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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The Monkey HTTP daemon is a Web server written in C that works
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under Linux and is based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol. It aims to develop
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a fast, efficient and small web server.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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A bug in the URI processing of incoming requests allows for a Denial of
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Service to be launched against the webserver, which may cause the server
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to crash or behave sporadically.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>
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Although there are no public exploits known for bug, users are recommended
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to upgrade to ensure the security of their infrastructure.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>
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There is no immediate workaround; a software upgrade is
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required. The vulnerable function in the code has been rewritten.
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</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>
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All users are recommended to upgrade monkeyd to 0.8.2:
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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge sync
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# emerge -pv ">=www-servers/monkeyd-0.8.2"
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# emerge ">=www-servers/monkeyd-0.8.2"</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/monkeyd/monkeyd/src/utils.c?r1=1.3&r2=1.4">CVS Patch</uri>
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</references>
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</glsa>
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