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Monkey HTTPD Header Parsing Denial of Service (DoS)

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Disclosed
May 30, 2013
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module causes improper header parsing that leads to a segmentation fault
due to a specially crafted HTTP request. Affects version

Author

Doug Prostko [email protected]

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/dos/http/monkey_headers
    msf auxiliary(monkey_headers) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(monkey_headers) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(monkey_headers) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(monkey_headers) > run
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