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Q271456: IIS 4.0 Causes Heap Corruption in CGI Application

Article: Q271456
Product(s): Internet Information Server
Version(s): 4.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbWinNT400PreSP7Fix kbWin2000SP2Fix
Last Modified: 08-MAY-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Internet Information Server version 4.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you execute a CGI application in Microsoft Internet Information Server
(IIS) 4.0, the HTTP data returned by the CGI application may get corrupted. An
Access Violation error message may occur in the WWW Service or in the W3Svc.dll.
This can occur when the CGI application adds additional HTTP headers to return
to the client.

RESOLUTION
==========

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0. For
additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:

  Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or
later:

  Date       Time    Version      Size    File name
  ------------------------------------------------
  10/04/2000 12:03a  4.02.0752    214,544 Adsiis.dll
  10/04/2000 12:03a  4.02.0752    330,080 Asp.dll
  10/04/2000 12:02a  4.02.0752    55,904  Httpodbc.dll
  10/04/2000 12:03a  4.02.0752    98,912  Iischema.dll
  10/04/2000 11:13p  4.02.0752    28,851  Iiscnfg.h
  10/04/2000 12:01a  4.02.0752    185,792 Infocomm.dll
  10/04/2000 12:02a  4.02.0752    38,256  Ssinc.dll
  10/04/2000 12:02a  4.02.0752    25,360  Sspifilt.dll


STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Internet Information Server
4.0.


Additional query words: IIS hotfix hot fix qfe quick engineering patch

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Keywords          : kbWinNT400PreSP7Fix kbWin2000SP2Fix 
Technology        : kbiisSearch kbiis400
Version           : :4.0
Hardware          : ALPHA x86
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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