CVEvulnerability
CVE-2001-1186
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2001-12-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
Microsoft IIS 5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an HTTP request with a content-length value that is larger than the size of the request, which prevents IIS from timing out the connection.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet information services 5.0
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-130 Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency weakness
References
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/244931 online.securityfocus.com
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/245100 online.securityfocus.com
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7691.php Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/244892 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3667 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/244931 online.securityfocus.com
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/245100 online.securityfocus.com
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7691.php Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/244892 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3667 Exploit, Vendor Advisory