CVE

Id
107  
CVE No.
CVE-1999-0107  
Status
Candidate  
Description
Buffer overflow in Apache 1.2.5 and earlier allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service with a large number of GET requests containing a large number of / characters.  
Phase
Modified (19991223-01)  
Votes
ACCEPT(1) Baker | MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(3) Northcutt, Shostack, Wall | REVIEWING(1) Levy | REVOTE(1) Christey  
Comments
Wall> - Although this is probably the phf hack. | Frech> XF:apache-dos | Christey> This sounds like the incident reported in: | NTBUGTRAQ:20000810 Apache Distributed Denial of Service | Levy> I belive this is the problem where sending lot of HTTP headers to apache resulted on a denial of service. | BUGTRAQ: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/10228 | BUGTRAQ: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/10516