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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200402-03">
<title>Monkeyd Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
<synopsis>
A bug in get_real_string() function allows for a Denial of Service attack to be
launched against the webserver.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">monkeyd</product>
<announced>2004-02-11</announced>
<revised count="01">2004-02-11</revised>
<bug>41156</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="www-servers/monkeyd" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.8.2</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.8.2</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
The Monkey HTTP daemon is a Web server written in C that works
under Linux and is based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol. It aims to develop
a fast, efficient and small web server.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
A bug in the URI processing of incoming requests allows for a Denial of
Service to be launched against the webserver, which may cause the server
to crash or behave sporadically.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
Although there are no public exploits known for bug, users are recommended
to upgrade to ensure the security of their infrastructure.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no immediate workaround; a software upgrade is
required. The vulnerable function in the code has been rewritten.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All users are recommended to upgrade monkeyd to 0.8.2:
</p>
<code>
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=www-servers/monkeyd-0.8.2"
# emerge ">=www-servers/monkeyd-0.8.2"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/monkeyd/monkeyd/src/utils.c?r1=1.3&r2=1.4">CVS Patch</uri>
</references>
</glsa>
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