[NT] TinyWeb Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

From: SecuriTeam (support_at_securiteam.com)
Date: 10/09/03

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      TinyWeb Server Denial of Service Vulnerability
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    SUMMARY

     <http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/> TinyWeb is "extremely small (executable
    file size is 53K), simple (no configuration other than through the command
    line) and fast (consumes minimum of system resources) Win32 daemon for
    regular (TCP/http) and secure (SSL/TLS/https) web servers".

    A vulnerability in the product allows remote attackers to cause the server
    to crash by sending it a special request.

    DETAILS

    Vulnerable systems:
     * TinyWeb version 1.9

    A remote user can issue an HTTP GET request for /cgi-bin/.%00./dddd.html
    and cause the server consume large amounts of CPU time (88%-92%).

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    The information has been provided by <mailto:vulncode@yahoo.com> Ziv
    Kamir.

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