DST2K0010: DoS & Path Revealing Vulnerability in Ceilidh v2.60a

[ollie () DELPHISPLC COM (Ollie Whitehouse)]

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>                                      Security Team Advisories
>                                        [05/06/2000]
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>                            securityteam () delphisplc com
>                 [http://www.delphisplc.com/thinking/whitepapers/]
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> Adv   :       DST2K0010
> Title :       DoS, Path Revealing & BufferOverrun Vulnerability in Ceilidh
> v2.60a
> Author        :       DCIST (securityteam () delphisplc com)
> O/S   :       Microsoft Windows NT v4.0 Workstation (SP6)
> Product       :       Ceilidh v2.60a (build date 3-04-2000)
> Date  :       05/06/2000
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> I.    Description
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> II.   Solution
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> III.  Disclaimer
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> I. Description
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> Vendor URL: http://www.lilikoi.com/
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> Severity: low
>
> The html code which is generated by ceilidh.exe (example URL below)
> contains a
> hidden form field by the name of "translated_path".
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> This path is the REAL location of the Ceilidh files (typically under Web
> root)
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> Example URL: http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/ceilidh.exe/ceilidh/?N4
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> Severity: med
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> By using a specially crafted POST statement it is possible to spawn
> multiple
> copies of ceilidh.exe each taking 1% of CPU and 700k of memory. This can
> be
> sent multiple times to cause resource depletion on the remote host. To
> free all
> the resources you must shutdown and restart the World Wide Web Publishing
> Service.
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> II. Solution
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> Vendor Status: Informed
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> Currently there is no known solution to the problem.
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> III. Disclaimer
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