COMMAND
IIS
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
IIS 4.0 (german)
PROBLEM
Marc Ruef found following. He found a new method to start a
denial of service-attack against a Windows NT which prefers to use
IIS 4.0 to provide a service over HTTP.
If you send an uninteresting Win32-binairy-file with the well
known iishack-utility by the eEye Digital Security Team over port
80 to a target which uses the german version of the www-daemon,
the webserver will crash itself and close port 80 (HTTP). Only a
reboot can restart the service correctly.
A lot of german web-pages with a lot of traffic are vulnerable
against this attack: One good example is the official homepage of
one of the biggest travel-agency here in Switzerland.
SOLUTION
Nothing yet.