CVE-2002-1866

The CVE-2002-1866 issue affects Simple Web Server (SWS) versions 0.0.4 through 0.1.0. The underlying root cause is that the server does not close file descriptors for 404 error responses, which can lead to resource exhaustion (denial of service) when an attacker issues numerous requests for non-e...

CVE-2002-1866

Simple Web Server SWS 0.0.4 through 0.1.0 does not close file descriptors for 404 error messages, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service file descriptor exhaustion via multiple requests for pages that do not exist...

Linux Kernel 2.4.18/2.4.19 - Privileged File Descriptor Resource Exhaustion (Denial of Service)

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5178/info The Linux kernel is a freely available, open source kernel originally written by Linus Torvalds. It is the core of all Linux distributions. Recent versions of the Linux kernel include a collection of file descriptors which are reserved for usa...