From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 21:32:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AD9037B400 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28602 invoked by uid 417); 23 Jun 2002 04:32:50 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 23 Jun 2002 04:32:50 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.4.199]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:32:48 -0600 Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 00:30:14 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: Terry Lambert Cc: root@utility.clubscholarship.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inuring FreeBSD to the apache bug without upgrading apache ? Message-Id: <20020623003014.1575c491.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <3D129688.356A87D0@mindspring.com> References: <20020620141424.U68572-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> <3D129688.356A87D0@mindspring.com> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:59:20 -0700 Terry Lambert wrote: > Patrick Thomas wrote: > > Is it possible to patch/recompile FreeBSD 4.5 in such a way that your > > system is no longer vulnerable to the "chunking" attack, even if you are > > still running a vulnerable apache ? > > Not FreeBSD, but it's possible to reconfigure Apache. > > The way you would deal with this would be to tell Apache that it > was an HTTP 1.0 server, since chunking is an HTTP 1.1 feature. I've found a better solution! On today's freshports there is something called mod_blowchunks :-) If installed, it will reject chunking and log it. This is an alternative to upgrading Apache. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message