IIS 4.0 Causes Heap Corruption in CGI Application (271456)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

This article was previously published under Q271456

SYMPTOMS

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, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

152734 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

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Internet Information Server 4.0.

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:9/23/2005
Keywords:kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbfix KB271456