Unscored CVE-2002-1866 EUVD-2002-1845GHSA-ccj2-626m-qx98

Simple Web Server (SWS) 0.0.4 through 0.1.0 does not close file descriptors for 404 error messages, which could allow remote attackers to c…

Published Jun 28, 2005 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Simple Web Server (SWS) 0.0.4 through 0.1.0 does not close file descriptors for 404 error messages, which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor exhaustion) via multiple requests for pages that do not exist.

References

5659 vdb-entry
sws-webserver-invalid-file-dos(10071) vdb-entry
20020903 Re: SWS Web Server v0.1.0 Exploit mailing-list