Microsoft has confirmed the reported vulnerability in the WebDAV implementation in IIS 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0, saying that the flaw could be used to bypass the authentication mechanism on the Web server.

Microsoft and administrators alike are learning in the worst possible way about a newly discovered buffer overrun vulnerability in the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) ...

Even for the most experienced security professionals, understanding complex attacks and vulnerabilities sometimes can be a serious challenge. A perfect example is the recent Microsoft IIS WebDAV ...

Microsoft yesterday posted Security Advisory 971492, which contains information regarding a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0. Microsoft describes the ...