Patch Available for "Chunked Encoding Post" Vulnerability

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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
           ESB-2000.053 -- Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-018)
          Patch Available for "Chunked Encoding Post" Vulnerability
                                21 March 2000

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Microsoft Corporation has released a patch that eliminates a security
vulnerability in Microsoft(r) Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0. The
vulnerability may allow a malicious user to consume all resources on a web
server and prevent it from servicing other users.

       http://www.microsoft.com/technet/Security/Bulletin/ms00-018.asp

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