[8692] in bugtraq
Apple "Web Sharing" in MacOS 8.5.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Luyer)
Thu Dec 10 23:40:29 1998
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:47:19 +0800
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: David Luyer <luyer@UCS.UWA.EDU.AU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
[re-sent, originally sent 9 Dec]
Sending...
GET aaaaa[...x4000...]aaaaa HTTP/1.0
[followed by pressing return twice]
to port 80 on an Apple Mac, MacOS 8.5.1, with web sharing enabled makes it
change from "Web Sharing On" to "Web Sharing Off", presumably because the web
server task dies. An annoying DoS, possibly worse, who knows (depends if
they compiled with range checking on, what language they used, etc).
David.
