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Secunia Advisory SA8639

Xeneo Web Server URL Encoding Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory SA8639
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Release Date 2003-04-23
   
Popularity 6,930 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Xeneo Web Server 2.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

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.


Solution
The vendor quickly responded by releasing version 2.2.10:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Carsten H. Eiram, Secunia Research.

Original Advisory
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2003-5/

Deep Links
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