T. Hauck Jana Server MS-DOS Device Name DoS Vulnerability

BID:2704

Info

T. Hauck Jana Server MS-DOS Device Name DoS Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 2704
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 07 2001 12:00AM
Updated: May 07 2001 12:00AM
Credit: Discovered and posted to Bugtraq by <[email protected]> on May 7, 2001.
Vulnerable: T. Hauck Jana Webserver 2.0 Beta1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
 T. Hauck Jana Webserver 1.46
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
 T. Hauck Jana Webserver 1.45
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Not Vulnerable: T. Hauck Jana Webserver 2.0 Beta2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Discussion

T. Hauck Jana Server MS-DOS Device Name DoS Vulnerability

Versions of Jana Server are vulnerable to a denial of service attack.

It is possible to remotely crash a system running Jana Server by submitting a URL request which specifies an MS-DOS devicename.

A hard reboot of the exploited server will be required to restore web services.

Exploit / POC

T. Hauck Jana Server MS-DOS Device Name DoS Vulnerability

www.example.com/aux

Solution / Fix

T. Hauck Jana Server MS-DOS Device Name DoS Vulnerability

Solution:
Jana Server v2.0 Beta2 is not affected by this issue:


T. Hauck Jana Webserver 1.45

T. Hauck Jana Webserver 1.46

References

T. Hauck Jana Server MS-DOS Device Name DoS Vulnerability

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