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Re: Apache Exploit


From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () coredump cx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:43:49 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Randy Taylor wrote:

Yep it works. Not only that, but preliminary indications are that those
OS'es not specifically supported in the GOBBLES 'sploit can be DOS'ed by
it. I've totally hosed RH Linux and FreeBSD boxen with it so far.

How come? At worst, Apache child on Linux should segfault and be restarted
(which is a bit resource- and time-expensive operation, but no biggie).
Perhaps you just DoSed it on TCP level? Or some other symptoms? Just
curious.

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