Re: Apache 2.0.54 exploit

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 01:19:38PM +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14106
>
> "
> Apache is prone to an HTTP request smuggling attack.
>
> A specially crafted request with a 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' header
> and a 'Content-Length' can cause the server to forward a reassembled
> request with the original 'Content-Length' header. Due to this, the
> malicious request may piggyback with the valid HTTP request.
>
> It is possible that this attack may result in cache poisoning,
> cross-site scripting, session hijacking and other attacks.
> "
>
> SecurityFocus lists Apache 2.0.54 and 2.0.55 as vulnerable..

And you're sending this to this list because?

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