SlowHTTPTest is a highly configurable tool that simulates some
Application Layer Denial of Service attacks.
It implements most common low-bandwidth Application Layer DoS attacks,
such as 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. 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.
Slow Read DoS attack aims the same resources as slowloris and slow POST,
but instead of prolonging the request, it sends legitimate HTTP request and
reads the response slowly.
gnome-video-effects is a collection of GStreamer effects to be used in
different GNOME modules.
Effects will be available according to the GStreamer plugins installed
(no dependency is enforced).
ok jasper@
Ordinary files are not supported and cause problems, so close the
fd and print a warning instead.
(upstream git commit ed6d013054f589f2999926b02f4ac6dc76c7fe91)
- also use the newly added -w option in the rc script, this delays exiting
after startup until daemon initialization has completed, so that init
failures will cause it to exit with an error code, so the infrastructure
can correctly report failure.
- Buffer overflow when pasting too long text from clipboard to dialog
boxes (not remotely exploitable)
- A write out of allocated memory in the graphics renderer
(potentially exploitable)
- An infinite loop when parsing invalid usemap specification in text and
graphics mode (can cause browser lockup, but not otherwise exploitable)
- Accesses out of memory in the xbm decoder (potentially exploitable)
Also drop dip.c patch to resolve crashes with libpng 1.5, upstream
appears to have fixed this separately in the update to 2.5.
Thanks jasper@ for additional testing.
