full-disclosure - Re: Advisory: Range header DoS vulnerability Apache HTTPD 1.3/2.x (CVE-2011-3192)

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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:39:59 -0700
From: Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com>
To: Nikolay Kichukov <hijacker@...um.net>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Advisory: Range header DoS vulnerability
	Apache HTTPD 1.3/2.x (CVE-2011-3192)

On 2011-08-26, at 08:12, Nikolay Kichukov wrote:
> Hi,
> This one works like charm on my debian stable
> 
> LimitRequestFieldSize 200
> 
> in the apache2.conf as global directive for all vhosts.

Be cautious about applying this mitigation -- it *will* break applications which use large cookies. In particular, the cookies generated by Google Analytics are often over 200 bytes long alone.
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