4863 : Microsoft IIS Active Server Page Header DoS
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
10	526	over 8 years ago	over 4 years ago	0 times	90%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2002-11-04	2003-04-18	2003-04-18

Time to Exploit
165 days

Keywords

AQTRONIX Security Advisory AQ-2003-01

Description

Microsoft IIS contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to exhaust the available memory and force it to restart. The issue is due to IIS not limiting the memory available for constructing headers to be returned to a web client. If an attacker uploaded a specially crafted ASP page that returned an overly large header to the requesting client, IIS will run out of memory.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Technical

An attacker must have the ability to upload files to the IIS server.

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, Microsoft has released a patch to address this vulnerability.

Products

Microsoft Corporation	IIS	4.0
		5.0
		5.1
	ASP	3.0

References

CVE ID: 2003-0225 (see also: NVD)
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 811114
Keyword: AQTRONIX Security Advisory AQ-2003-01
Other Advisory URL: http://www.aqtronix.com/Advisories/AQ-2003-01.txt
Vendor URL: http://www.microsoft.com
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS03-018

Tools & Filters

	11683

Credit

Parcifal Aertssen - parcifalaqtronix.com - AQTRONIX

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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