Apache Web Server Chunk Handling vulnerability on IRIX

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Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 09:24:47 PDT

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                               SGI Security Advisory
    
             Title:  Apache Web Server Chunk Handling vulnerability
            Number:  20020605-01-A
              Date:  June 18, 2002
         Reference:  CERT CA-2002-17
         Reference:  Apache Security Bulletin 20020617
         Reference:  CAN-2002-0392
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    CERT http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-17.html and Apache
    http://httpd.apache.org/info/security_bulletin_20020617.txt
    
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    http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-0392
    
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