CVE-1999-1416

Summary

CVE-1999-1416 is a vulnerability affecting the AnswerBook2 (AB2) web server using dwhttpd 3.1a4. An attacker can trigger a denial of service by sending an HTTP POST request with an excessively large content-length. This results in resource exhaustion, causing the server to become unresponsive and unable to process legitimate requests.

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