Securing Web Server Software

To some extent, an organization deploying a third-party web server product is inevitably placing its fate in the hands of

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Encoding and Canonicalization Vulnerabilities

Encoding flaws have arisen in many kinds of web server software and present an inherent threat in situations where the

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Path Traversal Vulnerabilities

Accipiter DirectServer This path traversal flaw could be exploited by placing URL-encoded dot-dot-slash sequences into a request. For more information

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Vulnerable Web Server Software

Web server products range from extremely simple and lightweight software which does little more than serve up static pages, to

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Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities occur when an application copies user-controllable data into a memory buffer that is not sufficiently large to

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Technical Challenges Faced by Vulnerability Scanners

The barriers to automation described previously lead to a number of specific technical challenges that must be addressed in the

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