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Subject:    [SA11715] MiniShare HTTP Request Denial of Service Vulnerability
From:       Secunia Security Advisories <sec-adv () secunia ! com>
Date:       2004-05-27 7:58:16
Message-ID: 200405270758.i4R7wGi9017705 () secunia ! com
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TITLE:
MiniShare HTTP Request Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11715

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11715/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
MiniShare 1.x

DESCRIPTION:
Donato Ferrante has discovered a vulnerability in MiniShare, 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
certain malformed HTTP requests. This can be exploited to crash the
service by sending a HTTP request without a CR/LF at the end.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.3.2. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.3.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/minishare/minishare-1.3.3.exe?download

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Donato Ferrante

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Product Changelog:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=241158

Donato Ferrante:
http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/MiniShare1.3.2-adv.txt

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