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Surfboard httpd Directory Traversal and Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA10327
Release Date: 2003-12-01
Last Update: 2003-12-30
Popularity: 6,169 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Surfboard httpd 1.x

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Surfboard httpd, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of sensitive information and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

An input validation error makes it possible to conduct a classic directory traversal attack using the "../" character sequence. The problem is that this character sequence is only checked if the URL contains a "?" character.

Example:
http://[victim]/../../etc/passwd

Browser input is reportedly read while running in a loop until a second line-feed is encountered. This can be exploited to make the process enter an infinite loop by connecting to the service and then closing it again without sending any data.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 1.1.8 and prior.

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