From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 09:34:50 CDT

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TITLE:
DiGi WWW Server Long Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11490

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11490/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

DESCRIPTION:
Donato Ferrante has reported a vulnerability in DiGi WWW Server,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
HTTP GET requests. This can be exploited to consume large amounts of
CPU resources and potentially freeze the process by sending an overly
long request.

SOLUTION:
This has been fixed in release Compieuw.2:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64549&package_id=61728&release_id=234261

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Donato Ferrante

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/DiGiWwwServerC1-adv.txt

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