CVE-2000-0167 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can crash the IIS mail service by creating a file with a long name in the pickup directory.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2000-0167?
CVE-2000-0167 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server, published on 23 Feb 2000. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
IIS Inetinfo.exe allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating a mail file with a long name and a .txt.eml extension in the pickup directory.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0167?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Internet Information Server.
How do I fix CVE-2000-0167?
No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0167 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2000-0167 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2000-0167 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Information Server
- CVE-2008-0075 Code injection in n/a
- CVE-1999-1376 Buffer overflow in fpcount.exe in IIS 4.0 with FrontPage Server Extensions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.
- CVE-1999-0407 By default, IIS 4.0 has a virtual directory /IISADMPWD which contains files that can be used as proxies for brute force password attacks, or
- CVE-1999-0874 Memory corruption in n/a
- CVE-2009-3023 Memory corruption in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gmg7-xp25-93hp.