Apache Web Server Chunk Handling vulnerability on IRIX

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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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SGI is currently investigating the Apache vulnerability reported by
CERT http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-17.html and Apache
http://httpd.apache.org/info/security_bulletin_20020617.txt

This vulnerability was assigned the following CVE:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-0392

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