Re: What HTTP exploit?

["Paul G" <paul () rusko us>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vinny Abello" <vinny () tellurian com>
To: "Mike Nice" <niceman () att net>
Cc: <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: What HTTP exploit?

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> I thought if it can be crashed by
> cramming too much info into a buffer before it's truncated, that's
> considered a buffer overflow. I'm no programmer and may be off base here
> but it just struck me as odd also.

it could also be a heap overflow (unless we are talking fbsd, for example).
regardless, i would be very interested in having a look at that gentleman's
apache setup to see if we can crash it reliably <g>

paul