Compaq Web-Based Management Agent - Access Violation Denial of Service

Author: Ian Vitek
type: dos
platform: windows
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date_added: 2003-06-23 
date_updated: 2012-11-19 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8015/info

Compaq Web-Based Management Agent has been reported prone to a remote denial of service vulnerability when handling malformed GET requests. The resulting error reports an access violation, effectively causing the service to crash. A remote attacker could exploit this issue to deny agent services to legitimate users.

GET /<!.FunctionContentType=(About 250 AAAAA:s)> HTTP/1.0