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Personal Web Sharing
by:
SecurityFocus
2.6
CVSS
LOW
Denial of Service
400
CWE
Product Name: Personal Web Sharing
Affected Version From: N/A
Affected Version To: N/A
Patch Exists: NO
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
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Platforms Tested: MacOS 9
2001

Apple Personal Web Sharing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Apple Personal Web Sharing is a utility that allows users to extend file-sharing abilities across a small intranet. A user may craft a URL which contains excess characters to cause the file-sharing system to shut down, resulting in a denial of service. The file sharing system must then be restarted to regain its functionality once again.

Mitigation:

Restart the file sharing system to regain its functionality.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2715/info


Apple Personal Web Sharing is a utility that allows users to extend file-sharing abilities across a small intranet. It is shipped with MacOS 9.

A user may craft a URL which contains excess characters to cause the file-sharing system to shut down.

The file sharing system must then be restarted to regain its functionality once again.

http://fileserver/?aaaaaaaaa... [approx. 6000 characters]