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Microsoft IIS 4 Redirect Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Microsoft IIS 4.0 is reported prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability when handling redirects.

It is reported that an attacker may exploit this vulnerability by issuing a large request to an affected IIS Web server. An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of IIS. This could lead to complete compromise of an affected computer.