CVE-1999-1416

Summary

CVE-1999-1416 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the AnswerBook2 (AB2) web server using dwhttpd 3.1a4. An attacker can trigger resource exhaustion by sending an HTTP POST request with an excessively large content-length. This issue may result in the web server becoming unresponsive or crashing, potentially impacting the availability of critical online services.

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