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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Hughes Technologies LibHTTPD 1.2. This affects the function httpdProcessRequest of the component POST Request Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2002-2400. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in Hughes Technologies LibHTTPD 1.2 (Web Server). It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is the function httpdProcessRequest of the component POST Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in the httpdProcessRequest function in LibHTTPD 1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP POST request.

The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2002 (Website). The advisory is available at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2002-2400 since 11/01/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/08/2024).

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (10615), Exploit-DB (22016) and SecurityFocus (BID 6172†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Web Server

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• Hughes Technologies

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• LibHTTPD

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• 1.2

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