On 2014-11-28, Ezequiel Garzon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! I know a lot is happening to httpd lately, so maybe this is not 
> an issue anymore. I've noticed that a malformed HTTP request such as
>
> $ printf 'GET /file\r\n\r\n'| nc myhost 80
>
> doesn't just silently fail, but rather shuts down httpd. My 
> /etc/httpd.conf is minimal:
>
> server default {listen on egress port 80}
>
> Has anybody else tried this?
>
> Thanks and cheers,
>
> Ezequiel
>
>

httpd in 5.6 was very early code, I think this problem should be fixed in
http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.6/common/009_httpd.patch.sig

BTW, this is not malformed, it's a valid HTTP 0.9 request.

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