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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200402-03">
+ <title>Monkeyd Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A bug in get_real_string() function allows for a Denial of Service attack to be
+ launched against the webserver.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">monkeyd</product>
+ <announced>2004-02-11</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2004-02-11</revised>
+ <bug>41156</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="www-servers/monkeyd" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.8.2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">0.8.2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ The Monkey HTTP daemon is a Web server written in C that works
+ under Linux and is based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol. It aims to develop
+ a fast, efficient and small web server.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ A bug in the URI processing of incoming requests allows for a Denial of
+ Service to be launched against the webserver, which may cause the server
+ to crash or behave sporadically.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ Although there are no public exploits known for bug, users are recommended
+ to upgrade to ensure the security of their infrastructure.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no immediate workaround; a software upgrade is
+ required. The vulnerable function in the code has been rewritten.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All users are recommended to upgrade monkeyd to 0.8.2:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge sync
+ # emerge -pv "&gt;=www-servers/monkeyd-0.8.2"
+ # emerge "&gt;=www-servers/monkeyd-0.8.2"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/monkeyd/monkeyd/src/utils.c?r1=1.3&amp;r2=1.4">CVS Patch</uri>
+ </references>
+</glsa>