Bug 138064

Summary: CAN-2004-0942 Memory consumption DoS
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: httpdAssignee: Joe Orton <jorton>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: 3.0Keywords: Security
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-11-04 11:41:57 UTC 
An issue was discovered where the field length limit was not enforced
for certain malicious requests. This could allow a remote attacker who
is able to send large amounts of data to a server the ability to cause
Apache children to consume proportional amounts of memory, leading to
a denial of service.

Affects: 2.0.52, 2.0.51, 2.0.50, 2.0.49, 2.0.48, 2.0.47, 2.0.46,
2.0.45, 2.0.44, 2.0.43, 2.0.42, 2.0.40, 2.0.39, 2.0.37, 2.0.36, 2.0.35

Proposed patch;

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=109932823014967&w=2

Public since Nov01
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2004-11-12 16:38:53 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-562.html