PT-2003-2150 · Cherokee · Cherokee Web Server

Published 2003-12-26 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2003-1198

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cherokee web server versions prior to 0.4.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an HTTP POST request without a Content-Length header field. This is related to the connection.c file in the Cherokee web server.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.4.6, update to version 0.4.6 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the HTTP POST request functionality until the update is applied.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-1198

Affected Products

Cherokee Web Server

References · 7

• http://freshmeat.net/redir/cherokee/20646/url_changelog/ChangeLog · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/9345 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-1198 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/10518 · Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14119 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/3306 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-1198 · Note