Cherokee POST request DoS

# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: cherokee_0_4_6.nasl 8023 2017-12-07 08:36:26Z teissa $
# Description: Cherokee POST request DoS
#
# Authors:
# David Maciejak <david dot maciejak at kyxar dot fr>
# based on work from (C) Tenable Network Security
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (C) 2004 David Maciejak
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
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#
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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#
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#

tag_summary = "The remote host is running Cherokee - a fast and tiny web server.

The remote version of this software is vulnerable to remote denial 
of service vulnerability when handling a specially-crafted HTTP 
'POST' request.

An attacker may exploit this flaw to disable this service remotely.";

tag_solution = "Upgrade to Cherokee 0.4.7 or newer";

#  Ref: <[email protected]>

if(description)
{
 script_id(15620);
 script_version("$Revision: 8023 $");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-12-07 09:36:26 +0100 (Thu, 07 Dec 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2003-1198");
 script_bugtraq_id(9345);
 script_xref(name:"OSVDB", value:3306);

 script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
 script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
 name = "Cherokee POST request DoS";

 script_name(name);
 

 
 
 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
 
 
 script_copyright("This script is Copyright (C) 2004 David Maciejak");
 family = "Denial of Service";
 script_family(family);
 script_dependencies("gb_get_http_banner.nasl");
 script_mandatory_keys("Cherokee/banner");
 script_require_ports("Services/www", 443);
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#
include("http_func.inc");

port = get_http_port(default:80);
if(!get_port_state(port))exit(0);

banner = get_http_banner(port: port);
if(!banner)exit(0);
 
serv = strstr(banner, "Server");
if(ereg(pattern:"^Server:.*Cherokee/0\.([0-3]\.|4\.[0-6])[^0-9]", string:serv))
 {
   security_message(port);
 }