If somebody writes a web server in a programming language, a server that listens on a socket (e.g. 80) and serves files with headers. What are the first threats it can experience once it goes out in the wild?
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If somebody writes a web server in a programming language, a server that listens on a socket (e.g. 80) and serves files with headers. What are the first threats it can experience once it goes out in the wild?
I would imagine that hackers will start with a buffer overflow attack. They could do things like call URLs that are too long or request headers that have malformed components.