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Web Crossing "Content-Length" Header Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10781
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Release Date:
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2004-02-04
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Last Update:
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2004-02-24
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Popularity:
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6,060 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Web Crossing 4.x
Web Crossing 5.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Peter Winter-Smith has reported a vulnerability in Web Crossing, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a division by zero error when processing HTTP POST requests containing extremely large or negative values in the "Content-Length:" header. This can be exploited to crash the application.
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