Essentia Web Server GET And HEAD Requests Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Essentia Web Server GET And HEAD Requests Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Essentia Web Server is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized buffer.

An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the webserver. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition.

This issue affects version 2.15; other versions may also be affected.

This issue may be related to the one described in BID 4159 (Essentia Web Server Long URL Buffer Overflow Vulnerability).