Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-1198 - Remote Content Length Denial Of Service vulnerability in Cherokee HTTP Post

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
 script_id(15620);
 script_version("1.19");

 script_cve_id("CVE-2003-1198");
 script_bugtraq_id(9345);

 script_name(english:"Cherokee Web Server Malformed POST Request Remote DoS");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote web server is affected by a denial of service 
vulnerability." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote host is running Cherokee - a fast and tiny web server.

The remote version of this software is affected by a remote denial of
service vulnerability when handling a specially crafted HTTP 'POST'
request. 

An attacker may exploit this flaw to disable this service remotely." );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?76d15ca6" );
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Cherokee 0.4.7 or newer as this reportedly fixes the issue." );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2004/11/04");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2003/12/26");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/12");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_end_attributes();

 
 script_summary(english:"Checks for version of Cherokee");
 
 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
 
 script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
 script_family(english:"Web Servers");
 script_dependencie("find_service1.nasl", "http_version.nasl");
 script_require_ports("Services/www", 443);
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#
include("http_func.inc");

port = get_http_port(default:80, embedded:TRUE);
if(!get_port_state(port))exit(0);

banner = get_http_banner(port: port);
if(!banner)exit(0);
 
serv = strstr(banner, "Server");
if(ereg(pattern:"^Server:.*Cherokee/0\.([0-3]\.|4\.[0-6])[^0-9]", string:serv))
 {
   security_warning(port);
 }