CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0072

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-04-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-04-22
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

The w3svc.dll ISAPI filter in Front Page Server Extensions and ASP.NET for Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1 does not properly handle the error condition when a long URL is provided, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) when the URL parser accesses a null pointer.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet information server 4.0 • microsoft internet information services 5.0

References