| Plugin ID | 29 |
| Plugin name | Monkey Webserver HTTP POST empty content-length Denial of Service |
| Plugin filename | Monkey Webserver POST Denial of Service.plugin |
| Plugin filesize | 2819 bytes |
| Plugin family | HTTP |
| Plugin created name | Marc Ruef |
| Plugin created email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
| Plugin created web | http://www.computec.ch |
| Plugin created company | computec.ch |
| Plugin created date | 2003/11/14 |
| Plugin updated name | Marc Ruef |
| Plugin updated email | marc dot ruef at computec dot ch |
| Plugin updated web | http://www.computec.ch |
| Plugin updated company | computec.ch |
| Plugin updated date | 2004/11/14 |
| Plugin version | 2.0 |
| Plugin changelog | Corrected the plugin structure and added the accuracy values in 1.4. Improved the pattern matching and introduced the plugin changelog in 2.0 |
| Plugin protocol | tcp |
| Plugin port | 80 |
| Plugin procedure detection | open|send HEAD / HTTP/1.0\n\n|sleep|close|pattern_exists HTTP/#.# ### *Monkey Webserver 0.* |
| Plugin detection accuracy | 80 |
| Plugin comment | This plugin was written with the ATK Attack Editor. |
| Bug affected | Monkey Webserver prior 0.5.0 |
| Bug not affected | Other web servers and Monkey Webservers newer than 0.5.0. |
| Bug vulnerability class | Denial Of Service |
| Bug description | An attacker may start an remote denial of service attack to Monkey Webservers prior version 0.5.0. This could be done sending a POST request with an content-length line without a value. |
| Bug solution | Upgrade to the latest version or filter unwanted HTTP access to the web server |
| Bug fixing time | 1 hour |
| Bug exploit availability | Yes |
| Bug exploit url | http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6096/exploit/ |
| Bug remote | Yes |
| Bug local | Yes |
| Bug severity | Medium |
| Bug popularity | 6 |
| Bug simplicity | 7 |
| Bug impact | 7 |
| Bug risk | 6 |
| Bug Nessus risk | Medium |
| Bug check tools | Nessus is able to do the same check. |
| Source SecurityFocus BID | 6096 |
| Source Nessus ID | 11924 |
| Source Literature | Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz, February 25, 2003, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, ISBN 0072227427 |
| Source Misc. | http://www.computec.ch |