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Overview |
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CVE Id | CVE-1999-1537 |
Last Modified | 05 Sep 2008 04:19:45 |
Published | 07 Jul 1999 12:00:00 |
Confidentiality Impact | ![]() |
Integrity Impact | ![]() |
Availability Impact | ![]() |
Access Vector | NETWORK |
Access Complexity | LOW |
Authentication | NONE |

CVE-1999-1537
Summary
IIS 3.x and 4.x does not distinguish between pages requiring encryption and those that do not, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via SSL requests to the HTTPS port for normally unencrypted files, which will cause IIS to perform extra work to send the files over SSL.
Vulnerable Systems
Application
Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0
Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
References
BID - 521
XF - ssl-iis-dos(2352)
NTBUGTRAQ - 19990707 SSL and IIS.
Last Updated: 27 May 2016 10:35:29