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A denial of service exists in Microsoft IIS Server when the optional request filtering feature improperly handles requests, aka 'Microsoft IIS Server Denial of Service Vulnerability'.
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A denial of service exists in Microsoft IIS Server when the optional request filtering feature improperly handles requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could perform a temporary denial of service against pages configured to use request filtering.
To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted request to a page utilizing request filtering.
The update addresses the vulnerability by changing the way certain requests are processed by the filter.
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