Local / Remote D.o.S Attack in Savant Web Server V2.0 WIN9X / NT / 2K

USSR Advisory Code:   USSR-99026

Release Date:
December 28, 1999 [2/5]

Systems Affected:
Savant Web Server V2.0 Win9X / NT / 2K and possibly others versions.

About The Software:
Savant provides support for most modern web features and technologies,
including:

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) 1.0 and 1.1
HTTP 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1 including keep-alive ability
Comprehensive logging in the standard NCSA format
User and group management
Password protection
Server-side image maps
Support for over 40 file types, including MP3, RealAudio, and Microsoft
Office files
XML, JavaScript, Java, and ActiveX, and more!

THE PROBLEM

UssrLabs found a Local / Remote Buffer overflow,the buffer overflow is
caused by a NULL Character in the parsing Get Command rutine.

Example:
in Internet Explorer, address: Htpp://SavantServerIP/%00/


The D.O.S action is logged in, C:\Savant\Logs\general.txt, inside looks like
this one

Attacker Ip - - [20/Dec/1999:00:10:27 -0300] "GET
/%00/index.htmlindex.htmlindex.htmlindex.htmlindex.htmlindex.htmlindex.
htmlindex.htmlindex.htmlindex.htmlindex.htmlindex.htmlindex.html" 301 279



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This advisory also acts as part of w00giving. This is another contribution
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Vendor Status:
Informed.

Vendor   Url: https://hera.wku.edu/~lamonml/savant/index.html
Program Url: https://hera.wku.edu/~lamonml/savant/download.html

Credit: USSRLABS

SOLUTION
Noting yet :(

Greetings:
Eeye, Attrition, w00w00, beavuh, Rhino9, ADM, L0pht, HNN, Technotronic and
Wiretrip.

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