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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2001-0500 EUVD-2001-0496GHSA-gcxg-pq25-8wh2

Buffer overflow in ISAPI extension (idq.dll) in Index Server 2.0 and Indexing Service 2000 in IIS 6.0 beta and earlier allows remote attack…

Published Mar 9, 2002 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Buffer overflow in ISAPI extension (idq.dll) in Index Server 2.0 and Indexing Service 2000 in IIS 6.0 beta and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long argument to Internet Data Administration (.ida) and Internet Data Query (.idq) files such as default.ida, as commonly exploited by Code Red.

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