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Title: Invalid Web Request Can Cause Access Violation in ISA
Server Web Proxy Service
Date: 16 April 2001
Software: ISA Server 2000
Impact: Denial of service
Bulletin: MS01-021
Microsoft encourages customers to review the Security Bulletin
at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-021.asp.
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Issue:
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The ISA Server Web Proxy service does not correctly handle web
requests that contain a particular type of malformed argument.
Processing such a request would result in an access violation,
which would cause the Web Proxy service to fail. This would disrupt
all ingoing and outgoing web proxy requests until the service was
restarted.
Mitigating Factors:
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- The vulnerability could be exploited from the Internet only
if the Web Publishing feature were enabled. By default,
this feature is disabled.
- The vulnerability would not enable an attacker to breach the
security of the firewall - that is, it would not enable the
attacker to access protected resources or bypass the firewall.
It would only enable the attacker to deny legitimate service
to other users.
- The vulnerability would only allow the Web Proxy service to
be disrupted. Other ISA services would continue functioning
normally.
Patch Availability:
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- A patch is available to fix this vulnerability. Please read
Security Bulletin
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-021.asp
for information on obtaining this patch.
Acknowledgment:
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- Dr. Richard Reiner, Graham Wiseman, Matthew Siemens, and
Kent Nicolson of FSC Internet Corp. / SecureXpert Labs
(http://www.fscinternet.com / http://www.securexpert.com)
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