Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) vulnerable to buffer overflow via inaccurate checking of delimiters in HTTP header fields

Overview A buffer overflow in IIS could allow an intruder to execute arbitrary code the the privileges of the ASP ISAPI extension. Description Like all web servers, IIS parses HTTP headers and decomposes them into the constituent parts. As part of this processing, IIS checks for delimiters that a...

Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1 buffer overflow in chunked encoding transfer mechanism for ASP

Overview A buffer overflow vulnerability in IIS 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1 could allow an intruder to execute arbitrary code on an IIS server with the privileges of the ASP ISAPI extension. Description Chunked encoding is a means to transfer variable-sized units of data called chunks from a web client to ...