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Diffstat (limited to 'net/slowhttptest/DETAILS')
| -rwxr-xr-x | net/slowhttptest/DETAILS | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/slowhttptest/DETAILS b/net/slowhttptest/DETAILS index 5d53fea1d9..83f493a362 100755 --- a/net/slowhttptest/DETAILS +++ b/net/slowhttptest/DETAILS @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ SPELL=slowhttptest - VERSION=1.4 + VERSION=1.5 SOURCE=$SPELL-$VERSION.tar.gz SOURCE_DIRECTORY="$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION" SOURCE_URL[0]=http://slowhttptest.googlecode.com/files/$SOURCE - SOURCE_HASH=sha512:7110727b6955bd62d532b0cfa5768450e0106e9fd935fa59991fcf276b2e571cf96d268cb09e251c08c619240062b2f053f954d1fdb3596e829a7f06873fe0cf + SOURCE_HASH=sha512:c1b11f57da637a827047948fcf1fb35b142631c428053b0d847657ab293bae50d259256ca3a2da2950c6621de016db6d687dbd06fd86510a3a666a469059b8a7 WEB_SITE=http://code.google.com/p/slowhttptest/ GATHER_DOCS=off LICENSE[0]=APACHE @@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ slowloris, Slow HTTP POST, Slow Read attack (based on TCP persist timer exploit) by draining concurrent connections pool, as well as Apache Range Header attack by causing very significant memory and CPU usage on the server. -Slowloris and Slow HTTP POST DoS attacks rely on the fact that the HTTP protocol, -by design, requires requests to be completely received by the server before they -are processed. If an HTTP request is not complete, or if the transfer rate is -very low, the server keeps its resources busy waiting for the rest of the data. +Slowloris and Slow HTTP POST DoS attacks rely on the fact that the HTTP +protocol, by design, requires requests to be completely received by the server +before they are processed. If an HTTP request is not complete, or if the +transfer rate is very low, the server keeps its resources busy waiting for the +rest of the data. If the server keeps too many resources busy, this creates a denial of service. This tool is sending partial HTTP requests, trying to get denial of service from target HTTP server. |