CVE-1999-1199 (GCVE-0-1999-1199)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Apache WWW server 1.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) via a large number of MIME headers with the same name, aka the "sioux" vulnerability.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
9 references
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| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde3… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf2f0f3611f9… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
1998-08-07 00:00
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