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CVSSv2

CVE-1999-1412

Published: 03/06/1999 Updated: 22/09/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

A possible interaction between Apple MacOS X release 1.0 and Apache HTTP server allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a flood of HTTP GET requests to CGI programs, which generates a large number of processes.

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apple macos 1.0

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/306/info A vulnerability in the MacOS X Server may crash it while under heavy load The vulnerability appears while stress testing a server running the Apache web server and 32 or more process are concurntly doing HTTP GET request to a CGI script in a loop The system will panic and display a stack trace w ...