CVE-2002-1866 Information

Description

Simple Web Server (SWS) 0.0.4 through 0.1.0 does not close file descriptors for 404 error messages which could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor exhaustion) via multiple requests for pages that do not exist.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0047.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10071.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5659