Denial of Service Vulnerability in Websweeper 4.0 via Large HTTP Referrer Header

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Websweeper 4.0 via Large HTTP Referrer Header

CVE-2001-0460 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Websweeper 4.0 does not limit the length of certain HTTP headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via an extremely large HTTP Referrer: header.

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