Big Sam Web Root Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:4312

Info

Big Sam Web Root Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4312
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 18 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 18 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Discovered by Ahmet Sabri ALPER <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Big Sam Big Sam 1.1 .08
Not Vulnerable: Big Sam Big Sam 1.1 .09

Discussion

Big Sam Web Root Disclosure Vulnerability

Big Sam is a stand along guestbook application written in PHP. It was originally developed for Linux, but may operate under a wide range of Unix and Windows platforms.

A vulnerability has been reported in some versions of Big Sam. If an extremely large parameter is passed to the script, execution may result in excessive resource consumption or in an error message. The error message will contain the full path to the web root. The outcome of exploitation has been reported to depend on the server configuration.

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