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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-023 announces the availability of a patch that eliminates a vulnerability in Microsoft® Internet Information Server.

What´s the scope of the vulnerability?

This is a denial of service vulnerability. If a malicious user requested a file from a web server via a specially-malformed URL, the server could become unresponsive for some period of time. The vulnerability does not cause the server to fail, or cause any data to be lost, and the server eventually would resume normal operation, given enough time.

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