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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:373 Date: 2005-03-07
Title: IIS AddHeader Large Header Denial of Service
Description: The ASP function Response.AddHeader in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0 does not limit memory requests when constructing headers, which allow remote attackers to generate a large header to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) with an ASP page.
Version: 1 Class: vulnerability
Status: ACCEPTED Reference(s): CVE-2003-0225
Family: windows
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000 Product(s): Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
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