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OmniHTTPd visadmin.exe Malformed URL DoS

This script is Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Tenable Network Security, Inc.

FamilyCGI abuses
Nessus Plugin ID10295 (visadmin.nasl)
Bugtraq ID1808
CVE IDCVE-1999-0970

Description:
Synopsis :

The remote host has an application that is affected by a
denial of service vulnerability.

Description :

It is possible to fill the hard disk of a server running
OmniHTTPd by issuing the request :

http://omni.server/cgi-bin/visadmin.exe?user=guest

This allows an attacker to crash your web server. This
script checks for the presence of the faulty CGI, but
does not execute it.

Solution :

Remove visadmin.exe from /cgi-bin.

Risk factor :

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5.0
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
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