Monkey HTTP Daemon Excessive POST Data Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:7202

Info

Monkey HTTP Daemon Excessive POST Data Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 7202
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 24 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 24 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Matthew Murphy.
Vulnerable: Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.6.1
Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.6
Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.5.1
Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.5
Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.4.2
Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.4.1
Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.4
Not Vulnerable: Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.6.2

Discussion

Monkey HTTP Daemon Excessive POST Data Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Monkey HTTP Daemon is prone to a boundary condition error. This condition occurs when the server attempts to handle excessive HTTP POST data. Exploitation could allow a remote attacker to corrupt sensitive regions of memory with attacker-supplied values, resulting in code execution. Exploitation attempts may also result in a denial of service.

Exploit / POC

Monkey HTTP Daemon Excessive POST Data Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following proof-of-concept was provided by Matthew Murphy <[email protected]>:

Solution / Fix

Monkey HTTP Daemon Excessive POST Data Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released version 0.6.2 to resolve this issue.

Gentoo has released an advisory for Gentoo Linux users. Gentoo users are advised to issue the following commands to update vulnerable systems:

emerge sync
emerge monkeyd
emerge clean


Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.4

Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.4.1

Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.4.2

Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.5

Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.5.1

Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.6

Monkey Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.6.1

References

Monkey HTTP Daemon Excessive POST Data Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

References:

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