NT IIS SSL DoS Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	521
Class:	Design Error
CVE:	CVE-1999-1537
Remote:	Yes
Local:	Yes
Published:	Jul 07 1999 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 11 2009 12:56AM
Credit:	Posted to NTbugtraq July 7, 1999 by Heather.Field (Exchange) <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable:	Microsoft IIS 4.0 + Cisco Building Broadband Service Manager (BBSM) 5.0 + Cisco Building Broadband Service Manager (BBSM) 5.0 + Cisco Call Manager 3.0 + Cisco Call Manager 3.0 + Cisco Call Manager 2.0 + Cisco Call Manager 2.0 + Cisco Call Manager 1.0 + Cisco Call Manager 1.0 + Cisco ICS 7750 + Cisco ICS 7750 + Cisco IP/VC 3540 Video Rate Matching Module + Cisco IP/VC 3540 Video Rate Matching Module + Cisco Unity Server 2.4 + Cisco Unity Server 2.4 + Cisco Unity Server 2.3 + Cisco Unity Server 2.3 + Cisco Unity Server 2.2 + Cisco Unity Server 2.2 + Cisco Unity Server 2.0 + Cisco Unity Server 2.0 + Cisco uOne 4.0 + Cisco uOne 4.0 + Cisco uOne 3.0 + Cisco uOne 3.0 + Cisco uOne 2.0 + Cisco uOne 2.0 + Cisco uOne 1.0 + Cisco uOne 1.0 + Hancom Hancom Office 2007 0 + Hancom Hancom Office 2007 0 + Microsoft BackOffice 4.5 + Microsoft BackOffice 4.5 + Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack + Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack Microsoft IIS 3.0 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

NT IIS SSL DoS Vulnerability

NT Servers running IIS with SSL security enabled are susceptible to a DoS attack due to the server's inability to differentiate between pages that require SSL and those that don't. Therefore, by replacing the 'http' string in the URL with 'https' the server can be forced to encrypt any content in the web site, including high-bandwidth pages. An attacker could, with carefully planned https requests, drive the processor utilization to 100% resulting in extreme slowdown or even failure of the server.

NT IIS SSL DoS Vulnerability

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NT IIS SSL DoS Vulnerability

Solution:
Microsoft has been notified and has passed the information to the IIS Security and IIS Development teams.