Linux Archive - Apache TraceEnable on

I think you are correct.

root@helen:/etc# telnet localhost 80
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
TRACE / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:06:13 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu) mod_ssl/2.2.12 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
Connection: close
Content-Type: message/http

TRACE / HTTP/1.0

Connection closed by foreign host.

The false positive alarms the credit care security scanners.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Joe McDonagh <joseph.e.mcdonagh@gmail.com> wrote:

On 08/04/2010 09:34 AM, Jim Tarvid wrote:

+ Allowed HTTP Methods: GET, HEAD, POST, OPTIONS, TRACE

+ OSVDB-877: HTTP TRACE method is active, suggesting the host is vulnerable to XST

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf has

Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/ which has

security.dpkg-dist which has

TraceEnable Off

but TRACE is on

and why should OPTIONS be on too?

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Rev. Jim Tarvid, PCA

Galax, Virginia

http://ls.net

I don't think TRACE is actually on, even though it says it is.

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