First published: Tue Nov 12 2002(Updated: )
IIS 5.0 and 5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed WebDAV requests that cause a large amount of memory to be assigned.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) | =5.0 |
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CVE-2002-1182 is classified as a denial of service vulnerability that can lead to server crashes.
To mitigate CVE-2002-1182, consider upgrading to a later version of Internet Information Services or implementing strict request validation for WebDAV.
CVE-2002-1182 affects Internet Information Services 5.0 and 5.1.
Yes, CVE-2002-1182 can be exploited remotely by sending malformed WebDAV requests to the server.
CVE-2002-1182 allows attackers to execute denial of service attacks, resulting in server unavailability.