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Savant Web Server Malformed Content-Length DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 11174

Synopsis

The remote web server is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The Savant web server on the remote host crashes when it receives an invalid GET HTTP request with a negative Content-Length field. A remote attacker can leverage this issue to disable the affected service.

Solution

Unknown at this time.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4b6c826b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 11174

File Name: savant_content_length_DoS.nasl

Version: 1.29

Type: remote

Family: Web Servers

Published: 11/27/2002

Updated: 7/27/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1828

BID: 5707, 6255