Apple Personal Web Sharing 1.1/1.5/1.5.5 - Remote Denial of Service

Author: Jass Seljamaa
type: dos
platform: osx
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date_added: 2001-05-10 
date_updated: 2012-08-26 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2001-0649;OSVDB-12068 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2715/info


Apple Personal Web Sharing is a utility that allows users to extend file-sharing abilities across a small intranet. It is shipped with MacOS 9.

A user may craft a URL which contains excess characters to cause the file-sharing system to shut down.

The file sharing system must then be restarted to regain its functionality once again.

http://fileserver/?aaaaaaaaa... [approx. 6000 characters]