National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2001-0500
Orirignal release date: 2001-07-21
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Buffer overflow in ISAPI extension (idq.dll) in Index Server 2.0 and Indexing Service 2000 in IIS 6.0 beta and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a long argument to Internet Data Administration (.ida) and Internet Data Query (.idq) files such as default.ida, as commonly exploited by Code Red.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 10 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: input buffer="1"
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    IIS (Microsoft)
    Index Server (Microsoft)
    Indexing Service (Microsoft)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2001-0500