Articles with tag: Imporper Input Validation
POSTED BY:
Patroklos Argyroudis
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14.12.2009
Monkey HTTPd improper input validation vulnerability
CENSUS ID: | CENSUS-2009-0004 |
Affected Products: | Monkey web server versions ≤ 0.9.2. |
Class: | Improper Input Validation (CWE-20), Incorrect Calculation (CWE-682) |
Remote: | Yes |
Discovered by: | Patroklos Argyroudis |
We have discovered a remotely exploitable “improper input validation” vulnerability in the Monkey web server that allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by repeatedly crashing worker threads that process HTTP requests.