[Full-disclosure] Apache Killer

Jan Gehring jan.gehring at inovex.de
Wed Aug 24 10:26:10 BST 2011


On 08/24/2011 11:04 AM, Davide Guerri wrote:
> Hi Sex (lol, weird thing to say),
> I agree with you.
> Moreover, this kind of filtering likely can't be used as-is for every apache installation.
>
> However, it will hopefully prevent kiddies to pwn our web servers. :)
>
> Cheers,
>   Davide.
>

Using mod_headers with

    RequestHeader unset Range

should work, too. At least it works for me (Debian Lenny, Apache 2.2.9). 
If you have no download site it should be okay.


Regards,

Jan




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