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Bug 347227

Summary: www-servers/apache does not enable mod_reqtimeout
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Apache Team - Bugzilla Reports <apache-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: berto.d.sera, mpagano, robbat2, toffanin.mauro
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2010/11/advanced-topic-of-the-week-mitigating-slow-http-dos-attacks.html
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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-11-30 00:50:30 UTC
See the post in the URL, this is necessary to stop RUDY attacks.
Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2010-12-02 06:43:44 UTC
NMU commit because we need this for forums.g.o, where we are getting some Slowaris attacks.