CVE-2009-0751
Yaws < 1.80 - Denial of Service via Large Number of Headers
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2009-0751. PoCs published by Praveen Darshanam.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This Perl script exploits CVE-2009-0751 by sending a large number of HTTP headers to a Yaws server, causing a denial of service due to memory consumption and crash. It constructs a malicious HTTP request with exponentially increasing headers and sends it to the target server.
Description
Yaws before 1.80 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a request with a large number of headers.
Exploits (1)
This Perl script exploits CVE-2009-0751 by sending a large number of HTTP headers to a Yaws server, causing a denial of service due to memory consumption and crash. It constructs a malicious HTTP request with exponentially increasing headers and sends it to the target server.