Re: Basic authentication against automated attacks

It depends if the buffer overflow occurs in a component that's invoked
before/after the Authentication process is invoked.

If there's a buffer overflow in the TCP/IP stack, then that can be exploited
before IIS even sees the request.

Cheers
Ken


"Bulent" <bulent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: Is basic authentication useful against automated attacks (e.g. those
: attacks using buffer overflows).
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: Regards,
: Bulent
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