From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2004 - 04:05:40 CST

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TITLE:
WWW File Share Pro HTTP Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10540

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10540/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
WWW File Share Pro 2.x

DESCRIPTION:
Dr_insane has reported a vulnerability in WWW File share Pro, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error during the
handling of HTTP GET requests. This can be exploited to crash the
process by sending an overly long request.

Example:
http://[victim]/AAA...[x3000]...AAA

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.46. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.48.
http://www.wfshome.com/download.htm

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dr_insane

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