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IBM Lotus Domino Web Service NLSCCSTR.DLL Malformed GET Request Overflow DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17991

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Synopsis

The remote web server is prone to denial of service attacks.

Description

The remote host is running a version of Lotus Domino Server's web service that is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

By sending a specially crafted HTTP request with a long string of unicode characters, a remote attacker can crash the nHTTP.exe process, denying service to legitimate users.

Note that IBM has released technote #1202446 for this issue but has been unable to reproduce it.

Solution

Upgrade to Lotus Domino Server version 6.5.3 or later as it is known to be unaffected.

See Also

https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/395126

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17991

File Name: domino_http_cgibin_unicode_dos.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: remote

Family: Web Servers

Published: 4/7/2005

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

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

CPE: cpe:/a:ibm:lotus_domino

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0986

BID: 13045