Joshua Lee wrote: > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Patrick Thomas wrote: > > > Is it possible to patch/recompile FreeBSD 4.5 in such a way that your > > > system is no longer vulnerable to the "chunking" attack, even if you are > > > still running a vulnerable apache ? > > > > Not FreeBSD, but it's possible to reconfigure Apache. > > > > The way you would deal with this would be to tell Apache that it > > was an HTTP 1.0 server, since chunking is an HTTP 1.1 feature. > > I've found a better solution! On today's freshports there is something > called mod_blowchunks :-) If installed, it will reject chunking and log > it. This is an alternative to upgrading Apache.
But if a client uses chunking legitimately, and does so becuase it believes it's talking to an HTTP server, you've just broken that client's ability to POST/PUT. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
