Info

Disclosure

Sep 01, 2004

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Sep 01, 2004

Solution

Unknown

Description

Cerber Proxy Server contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when the server receives a HTTP "Host:" header value longer than 9000 bytes, and will result in the host running the affected proxy server to consume large amount of CPU resources.

Classification

Location: Remote/Network Access Required
Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Available
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Currently, there are no known upgrades, patches, or workarounds available to correct this issue.

Products

C.Szymanski

Cerbère Proxy Server

1.2

References

Security Tracker: 1011133
Secunia Advisory ID: 12422
Vendor URL: http://cerbere.szym.org/

Credit

Ziv Kamir - vulncodeyahoo.com -

Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/36218