4D 6.7 DOS and Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

From: Alfred Goldberg (agoldberg@absoluteitsolutions.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 18:59:54 CEST


Vulnerability Summary
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Problem: The 4D 6.7 webserver has a buffer overflow condition.

Threat: An attacker could make the webserver crash and possibly execute
arbitrary code.

Affected Software: 4D Webserver version 6.7.3 verified.

Platform: Windows verified.

Solution: Update to the version mentioned below.

Vulnerability Description
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4D is unable to handle long HTTP requests. The result is a termination of
the 4D application as the buffer is overflown.

Solution
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4D 6.8 seems to of addressed this problem.

Additional Information
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4D was contacted 20020606 but returned no reply.

This vulnerability was found and researched by
Dumitru Vlad



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