Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 02:29:30 -0400 From: Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: root@utility.clubscholarship.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inuring FreeBSD to the apache bug without upgrading apache ? Message-ID: <20020621022930.088904b7.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <3D129688.356A87D0@mindspring.com> References: <20020620141424.U68572-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> <3D129688.356A87D0@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:59:20 -0700 Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> 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 ? Why not upgrade Apache...?? Both the 1 and 2 series have been updated I think. (I'm a newbie at server stuff, so bear with me if I made a faux pas.) > 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. > > The only place this is an issue is if you need to reuse an HTTP > connection, and that only occurs in HTTP 1.1 when you are doing > pipelining. Everywhere else, you can indicate an end of data Mozilla has an option to enable http pipelining as a performance option. I regularly used this, maybe I shouldn't? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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