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Deerfield VisNetic ActiveDefense HTTP denial of service

by Mario Miri on May 13th, 2003 A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in VisNetic ActiveDefense. When multiple subsequent HTTP requests are made to the server, the server crashes.

Vulnerable:
Deerfield VisNetic ActiveDefense 1.3.1


Exploit / Proof Of Concept:
http://download.xatrix.org/prf/activedefense1.txt


Solution:
A patch is available:
http://www.deerfield.com/download/visnetic_activedefense/thanks.htm?dlid=53&profileid=24&productid=126&url=ftp://ftp.deerfield.com/pub/current/vad_131_patch.exe&bp=0


Discovered by:
Positive Technologies

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