Pop-Up Thingie

>>> Magnum BBS <<<
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Files
  • Log in

  1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. COMP.UNIX.BSD.OPENBSD.ANN
  • OpenBSD errata, Jan 31, 2017

    From Bob Beck@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 2 15:40:02 2017
    An issue has been identified whereby httpd(8) could be subject to a denial
    of service attack. Repeated crafted requests could be made from a client
    using file-range requests, making the server consume excessive amounts of memory.

    This issue has been fixed in current. For 5.9 and 6.0 the following errata
    will disable range header processing in httpd(8) to prevent the problem.

    Thanks to Pierre Kim <[email protected]> for reporting
    the issue.

    https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.0/common/017_httpd.patch.sig

    https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.9/common/034_httpd.patch.sig

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • Who's Online

  • Recent Visitors

    • Zenobyte
      Wed Jul 29 21:08:05 2026
      from San Juan, Pr via Telnet
    • Guest
      Wed Jul 29 14:26:54 2026
      from Balkans via Telnet
    • Rixter
      Wed Jul 29 14:18:17 2026
      from Madison, Nc via Telnet
    • Rixter
      Wed Jul 29 02:00:40 2026
      from Madison, Nc via Telnet
    • Centurion
      Tue Jul 28 22:54:59 2026
      from Berea, Ohio via Telnet
    • Bob Worm
      Tue Jul 28 16:01:18 2026
      from Wales, Uk via Telnet
    • Rixter
      Tue Jul 28 13:42:46 2026
      from Madison, Nc via Telnet
    • Krenn
      Tue Jul 28 11:59:57 2026
      from Sydney, Nsw via Telnet
  • System Info

    Sysop: Keyop
    Location: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK
    Users: 741
    Nodes: 16 (2 / 14)
    Uptime: 74:06:12
    Calls: 12,449
    Calls today: 4
    Files: 15,194
    Messages: 6,537,658

© >>> Magnum BBS <<<, 2026