Apache Killer - take 2?

Damiano Bolzoni <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications
Organization University of Twente
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,
today we saw a weird HTTP header in a request that came to a web server
we are monitoring:

HEAD /contact HTTP/1.1
Content-Range: bytes 1-1024/-1
User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; pl) Presto/2.5.22 Version/10.51
Host: www.xyz.nl
Accept: */*


The offending IP is not in any blacklist, and the intent is kind of
clear...the server is Apache, but I have no detailed information about
the version/patching level. The server went ahead with a simple redirect
to the default error page.

Is this just a clumsy way to attempt an overflow of one of the range
boundaries and replicate the infamous Apache Killer attack?

cheers

-- 
Dr. Damiano Bolzoni

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