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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
           ESB-2000.088 -- Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-031)
             Patch Available for "Undelimited .HTR Request" and
              "File Fragment Reading via .HTR" Vulnerabilities
                                 11 May 2000

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	AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
	---------------------------------

Product:		Internet Information Server 4.0 
			Internet Information Server 5.0
Vendor:			Microsoft
Operating System:	MS Windows Server Platforms
Platform:		N/A 

Impact:			Denial of Service
			Read-only Data Access
Access Required:	Remote

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Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-031)
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Patch Available for "Undelimited .HTR Request" and "File Fragment
Reading via .HTR" Vulnerabilities

Originally Posted: May 10, 2000

Summary
=======
Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates two security
vulnerabilities in Microsoft(r) Internet Information Server. The
vulnerabilities could, respectively, be used to slow an affected web
server's response or to obtain the source code of  certain types of
files under very restricted conditions.

Frequently asked questions regarding these vulnerabilities
and the patch can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/fq00-031.asp

Issue
=====
This patch eliminates two security vulnerabilities that are unrelated
except by virtue of the fact that both exist in the  ISAPI extension
that provides web-based password administration via .HTR scripts.
 - The "Undelimited .HTR Request" vulnerability is a denial
   of service vulnerability. If a malicious user provided a
   password change request that was missing an expected
   delimiter, the algorithm would conduct an unbounded search.
   This would prevent it from servicing additional .HTR requests,
   and could also slow the overall response of the server.
 - The ".HTR File Fragment Reading" vulnerability could allow
   fragments of certain types of files to be read by providing a
   malformed request that would cause the .HTR processing to be
   applied to them. However, the vulnerability could only be
   exploited under extremely restrictive conditions, and the
   most valuable data in the files would be the least likely to
   actually appear in the fragments sent to the user.

Neither of these vulnerabilities would allow data to be added, deleted
or changed on the server, nor would they allow any  administrative
control on the server to be usurped. Although .HTR files are used to
allow web-based password administration,  neither of these
vulnerabilities involve any weakness in password handling. Also, if
security best practices have been  followed, and unneeded script
mappings have been removed, many customers will have removed the .HTR
script mapping and thus  be unaffected by either vulnerability.

Affected Software Versions
==========================
 - Internet Information Server 4.0
 - Internet Information Server 5.0

Patch Availability
==================
 - Internet Information Server 4.0:
   http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/Release.asp?ReleaseID=20905
 - Internet Information Server 5.0:
   http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/Release.asp?ReleaseID=20903

Note: Additional security patches are available at the Microsoft
Download Center

More Information
================
Please see the following references for more information related to
this issue.
 - Frequently Asked Questions: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-031,
   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/fq00-031.asp
 - Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q260838 discusses the
   "Undelimited .HTR Request" vulnerability and will be available
   soon.
 - Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q260069 discusses the "File
   Fragment Reading via .HTR" vulnerabilty and will be available
   soon.
 - How to Change Windows NT Account Passwords Using Internet
   Information Server (IIS) 4.0,
   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/support/kb.asp?ID=184619
 - Microsoft TechNet Security web site,
   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/default.asp

Obtaining Support on this Issue
===============================
This is a fully supported patch. Information on contacting Microsoft
Technical Support is available at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/contact/default.asp.

Acknowledgments
===============
Microsoft thanks Internet Security Systems' X-force
(http://xforce.iss.net/), and David Litchfield of Cerberus Information
 Security, Ltd (http://www.cerberus-infosec.co.uk/), for reporting
these vulnerabilities to us, and working with us to protect
customers.

Revisions
=========
 - May 10, 2000: Bulletin Created.

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Last updated May 10, 2000

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