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Xitami POST Request Infinite Loop Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10275
Release Date: 2003-11-21
Popularity: 6,252 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Xitami 2.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Xitami, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a logic error in the handling of POST requests. This can be exploited by sending a specially crafted request, which causes the service to enter an infinite loop and stop responding to requests.

The vulnerability has been reported to affect version 2.5 and prior.

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