From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 07:59:59 CDT

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TITLE:
ARMIDA Long HTTP Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/9089/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
ARMIDA 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in ARMIDA, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on a
vulnerable web server.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of overly
long HTTP requests. This can be exploited by sending a 500,000
character long request, which causes the web service to consume 88% -
90% CPU resources.

Example:
http://[victim]/AAAA...[500,000]...AAAA

SOLUTION:
Use another web server, or filter long requests in a HTTP proxy or
firewall with URL filtering capabilities.

REPORTED BY / CREDITS:
Ziv Kamir

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