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Date: 22 Dec 1998 10:05:51 -0000
From: Benjamin Maus <maus@myworld.at>
Reply-To: maus@myworld.at
To: apbugs@hyperreal.org
Subject: Down the Server via Batch file.
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>Number:         3574
>Category:       os-windows
>Synopsis:       Down the Server via Batch file.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 22 02:10:00 PST 1998
>Closed-Date:    Mon Oct 16 22:20:43 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Oct 16 22:20:43 PDT 2000
>Originator:     maus@myworld.at
>Release:        1.3.2 @ Win 32
>Organization:
>Environment:
Windows 95 Pentium 200MMX and Windows NT
>Description:
Whn you put a .bat file with the following content (+LineFeed) in a CGI-Executable directory an acces it via TELNET on Port 80
than the SERVER will go down:

hello.bat:
echo HelloDown

TELNET command:GET /cgi-bin/hello.bat
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: wrowe
State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 16 22:20:43 PDT 2000
State-Changed-Why:

As scary as this sounds... it was a bug resulting from
bad script header parsing.  It has been gone a while.
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