CVE-2014-5336 Information

Description

Monkey HTTP Server before 1.5.3 when the File Descriptor Table (FDT) is enabled and custom error messages are set allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via an HTTP request that triggers an error message.

Reference

http://monkey-project.com/Announcements/v1.5.3 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/397 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/412 http://secunia.com/advisories/60783 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69279 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95336 https://github.com/monkey/monkey/commit/b2d0e6f92310bb14a15aa2f8e96e1fb5379776dd