CVE-2000-0226

Summary

CVE-2000-0226 refers to a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Internet Information Services (IIS) 4.0. Malicious actors can exploit this issue by making large buffer requests in POST or PUT commands using Chunked Transfer Encoding. This exploit consumes excessive memory, causing the server to crash and become unresponsive. The vulnerability poses a significant risk, as attackers can easily overload the targeted IIS 4.0 servers, potentially leading to widespread downtime.

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