Finally we got a fix

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Apache-HTTP-Server-2-2-20-fixes-DoS-vulnerability-1333766.html



On 31 August 2011 17:30, Renjith Ravindran <[email protected]> wrote:

> wow... thnx for sharing that! :)
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Siju George <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hope you must have heard about the latest apache nightmare.
>>
>> http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/apache-killer
>>
>> http://www.fastcompany.com/1776321/the-biggest-little-threat-to-kill-the-internet-you-didnt-know-about
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/24/devastating_apache_vuln/
>>
>> My co-admin run the killer script on some linux servers and within
>> seconds all the CPUs turned 100% and the servers started to crawl.
>> I made him run it on an Old OpenBSD 4.7 ( released 1.5 years back )
>> webserver and it made no affect!
>> Also I found this true of the lastest version of OpenBSd here.
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=131424693000610&w=2
>>
>> It seems this  was already fixed in the OpenBSD's much before.
>> The vulnerability was known since Jan 2007 as you can see from
>>
>> http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2007/Jan/83
>>
>> I wonder why Apache developers or any Linux vendor fix it.
>>
>> I guess for any critical Apache services it is better to run the
>> OpenBSD's patched version that comes along with the OS.
>> Years back one of the OpenBSD developers told that Apache has not
>> incorporated many security fixes thay have provided because of very
>> silly reasons.
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=108786980513755&w=2
>>
>> It is when things like this happens most people think about security!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --Siju
>>
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