CVE-2005-4360

Description

The URL parser in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 on Windows XP Professional SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via multiple requests to ".dll" followed by arguments such as "~0" through "~9", which causes ntdll.dll to produce a return value that is not correctly handled by IIS, as demonstrated using "/_vti_bin/.dll/*/~0". NOTE: the consequence was originally believed to be only a denial of service (application crash and reboot).

Weakness classification

• CWE-252: Unchecked Return Value

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
• cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory