[LUAU] Apache DoS vulnerability

Jeff Mings jeffm at lava.net
Thu Aug 25 19:43:41 PDT 2011


Once again, thanks for the heads-up, Julian.  :)

On 08/24/2011 10:08 AM, Julian Yap wrote:
> Here is an article:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/24/devastating_apache_vuln/
>
> Try running the proof of concept here:
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51714
>
> I ran it on some CentOS 5 and 6 (running httpd-2.2.15-5.el6.centos.x86_64) servers which reported no issues.  It may be the default way that RHEL/CentOS has the network set up or perhaps does not enable the modules required.  I suspect some distributions may be vulnerable with their default set up.
>
> - Julian
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