Re: [NTSEC] IIS 4 Advisory - ExAir sample site DoS

From: Michael Howard (mikehowat_private)
Date: Mon Jan 25 1999 - 10:08:30 PST

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    we've always recommended people remove ALL samples from any production
    server - incl ExAir, WSH, and ADO samples etc.
    
    Cheers, MH
    IIS Security
    
    
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    Subject: [NTSEC] IIS 4 Advisory - ExAir sample site DoS
    
    
    
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    This advisory is for those that have Internet Information Server 4 installed
    with the IIS sample site "ExAir".
    
    There are three Active Server Pages that, if called directly without the
    default ExAir page and associated dlls ever having been loaded into the IIS
    memory space, will hang and eventually time out after 90 secs - the default
    script timeout period. Whilst in this state, processor usage increases to
    100% and the server becomes very sluggish.
    
    These pages are:
    Exair - root/search/advsearch.asp
    Exair - root/search/query.asp
    Exair -root/search/search.asp
    
    The Exair directory and all subdirectories should be deleted - they are not
    needed.
    
    NTInfoScan will check if your site is vulnerable to this problem. More
    information about NTInfoScan can be found at
    http://www.infowar.co.uk/mnemonix/ntinfoscan.htm
    
    Cheers,
    David Litchfield
    http://www.infowar.co.uk/mnemonix
    ps - apologies to the owner of the server.com domain.
    



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