Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Counter.exe Web Hit Counter Program

vendor:

Counter.exe

by:

SecurityFocus

4.3

CVSS

MEDIUM

Denial of Service

400

CWE

Product Name: Counter.exe

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

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2002

Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Counter.exe Web Hit Counter Program

A malicious user can create a malformed like ',1' entry in the counter.log file by requesting a URL of the form 'http://www.example.com/scripts/counter.exe?%0A'. Any further attempt for request will result in an Access Violation in counter.exe. A similar vulnerability exists if a user requests a URL of the form 'http://www.example.com/scripts/counter.exe?AAAAA' with over 2200 A's. All further requests for counter.exe are queued and are not processed until the error messages are cleared at the console. System memory may be decremented each time a request for counter.exe is queued.

Mitigation:

Ensure that the counter.exe program is not accessible from the web.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/267/info

A set of vulnerabilities in the counter.exe web hit counter program enables denial of service attacks.

A malicious user can create a malformed like ",1" entry in the counter.log file by requesting a URL of the form "http://www.example.com/scripts/counter.exe?%0A". Any further attempt for request will result in an Access Violation in counter.exe.

A similar vulnerability exists if a user requests a URL of the form "http://www.example.com/scripts/counter.exe?AAAAA" with over 2200 A's.

All further requests for counter.exe are queued and are not processed until the error messages are cleared at the console. System memory may be decremented each time a request for counter.exe is queued.