Apache Vulnerability Announced

Aaron writes "Versions of the Apache HTTP Server up to and including 1.3.24 and 2.0 up to and including 2.0.36 contain a bug in the routines which deal with invalid requests which are encoded using chunked encoding. In some cases it may be possible to cause a child process to terminate and restart, which consumes a non-trivial amount of resources. See the official announcement and stay tuned here for updated versions." This is in response to the rather uninformed and questionable security notice by ISS X-Force, about a bug that has already been mentioned on the public mailing lists for Apache and is fixed in CVS for Apache 2.0. I am also told that their patch doesn't fully solve the problem. I am sure though that by awaking us to the problem they will get a lot of great press just like any of the other companies currently using useless bug announcements as press releases.

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[tiltowait]

I can just see the "and what if this was IIS, how would you be commenting with snide remarks" trolls now.

Don't point the finger at ISS.

[dave-fu]

What they did (unilaterally going ahead and releasing a bug they discoverd) is shady, but you should instead point the finger of blame at the Apache group for distributing a buggy product (IIS had a similar problem with chunking way back when... what's that cliche about forgetting history?) and, if you're the one who's pimping open source as the best thing since sliced bread to anyone who will or won't listen, point the finger right back at yourself for blindly trusting the code you're running.

slashdot.org should be renamed spinroom.org

[sheldon]

The spin from the linux camp on this one has been pretty funny to read. :-)

How long will it take before this is exploited? Then how many servers will get rooted because they haven't installed a patch?