CVE-2013-6414: Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View
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There is a denial of service vulnerability in the header handling component of Action View. Strings sent in specially crafted headers will be cached indefinitely. This can cause the cache to grow infinitely, which will eventually consume all memory on the target machine, causing a denial of service.
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