Microsoft IIS/5 bogus Content-length bug.

Let's say that it's a bug, not a security flaw, but probably can lead into denial of service with some tweaking. When you send a bad request to Microsoft IIS/5.0 server it gives you the error and closes the connection, like when you fail to authenticate. Well... let's take a look to a normal...

CVE-2001-1186

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...

Microsoft IIS 5.0 - False Content-Length Field Denial of Service

Microsoft IIS 5.0 - False Content-Length Field Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3667/info Microsoft IIS 5.0 may be prone to a denial of service condition when sent a specially crafted malformed HTTP GET header. If an IIS 5.0 web server is sent a crafted HTTP GET request...

Microsoft IIS 5.0 - False Content-Length Field Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3667/info Microsoft IIS 5.0 may be prone to a denial of service condition when sent a specially crafted malformed HTTP GET header. If an IIS 5.0 web server is sent a crafted HTTP GET request which contains a falsified and excessive "Content-Length" field,...

WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server 1.5 - Negative Content Length Denial of Service

WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server 1.5 - Negative Content Length Denial of Service source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/569/info Specifying a negative content-length in a POST operation to the WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server will crash the web server. !/usr/bin/perl -w Example DoS...

WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server 1.5 - Negative Content Length Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/569/info Specifying a negative content-length in a POST operation to the WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server will crash the web server. !/usr/bin/perl -w Example DoS against WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server 8/8/99 rpc use IO::Socket; die "usage: $0...

HTTP Proxy POST Request Relaying

The proxy allows the users to perform POST requests such as POST http://cvs.nessus.org:21 without any Content-length tag. This request may give an attacker the ability to have an interactive session. This problem may allow attackers to go through your firewall, by connecting to sensitive ports li...