CVE-2002-0072 Null dereference in n/a
Remote attackers can crash IIS servers by sending long URLs to the Front Page Server Extensions ISAPI filter, causing a null pointer dereference.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2002-0072?
CVE-2002-0072 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Server, published on 2 Apr 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The w3svc.dll ISAPI filter in Front Page Server Extensions and ASP.NET for Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0, 5.0, and 5.1 does not properly handle the error condition when a long URL is provided, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) when the URL parser accesses a null pointer.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0072?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services.
How do I fix CVE-2002-0072?
No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0072 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2002-0072 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-0072 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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-84f6-4j88-6cvc.