IBM Lotus Domino Server Web Service Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:13045

Info

IBM Lotus Domino Server Web Service Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13045
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE: CVE-2005-0986
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 06 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 05:56PM
Credit: The discoverer of this vulnerability wishes to remain anonymous.
Vulnerable: IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.1
Not Vulnerable: IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.3

Discussion

IBM Lotus Domino Server Web Service Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

A remote denial of service vulnerability affects IBM Lotus Domino Server web service. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly handle malformed network requests.

IBM has denied that this issue is a vulnerability and they have reported conflicting details regarding it. Please see the referenced IBM technote for more information.

An attacker may leverage this issue to crash the nHTTP.EXE web service, denying service to legitimate users.

Exploit / POC

IBM Lotus Domino Server Web Service Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue. The following proof of concept GET request has been provided:

GET /cgi-bin/[xxx] HTTP/1.0
Host: 10.10.0.100

Where [xxx] represents a long string (~330) of UNICODE decimal value 430 characters.

Solution / Fix

IBM Lotus Domino Server Web Service Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
IBM has released technote 1202446 dealing with this issue. IBM claims that it is not a vulnerability as they were unable to reproduce it. It is likely that this is related to their description of the issue in the technote and that it is not congruent with that of iDEFENSE.

iDEFENSE has reported that version 6.5.3 is not vulnerable to this issue. Customers should contact the vendor for more information on obtaining the updated version.

References

IBM Lotus Domino Server Web Service Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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