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monkey -- improper input validation vulnerability

Description:

Census Labs reports:

We have discovered a remotely exploitable "improper input validation" vulnerability in the Monkey web server that allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by repeatedly crashing worker threads that process HTTP requests.

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portaudit: monkey -- improper input validation vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>