Article ID: 187503
Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0
This article was previously published under Q187503
We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
SYMPTOMS
When a very long Uniform Resource Locator (URL), usually with hundreds of forward slash (/) characters, is passed to an Active Server Pages (ASP) page on the Web server, an access violation occurs.
WORKAROUND
To resolve this problem, obtain the following fix.
This fix should have the following time stamp:
04/10/98 07:49p 382,576 asp.dll (Intel)
04/10/98 08:04p 557,328 asp.dll (Alpha)
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Internet Information Server version 3.0.
A supported fix is now available, but has not been fully regression tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem. Contact Microsoft Technical Support for more information.
Additional query words: violate hot fix qfe MapPath akz
Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB187503
