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...