Thursday, August 25, 2011

Advisory: Range header DoS vulnerability Apache HTTPD 1.3/2.x \(CVE-2011-3192\)

Description:
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A denial of service vulnerability has been found in the way the multiple
overlapping ranges are handled by the Apache HTTPD server:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/175

An attack tool is circulating in the wild. Active use of this tools has
been observed.

The attack can be done remotely and with a modest number of requests can
cause very significant memory and CPU usage on the server.

The default Apache HTTPD installation is vulnerable.

There is currently no patch/new version of Apache HTTPD which fixes this
vulnerability. This advisory will be updated when a long term fix
is available.

A full fix is expected in the next 48 hours.

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