Intrusion PreventionHTTP.Header.Connection.Overlong
Description
This indicates detection of an HTTP protocol anomaly in the HTTP request with an excessively long Connection field in the HTTP header.
Affected Products
Any unprotected Web server is vulnerable to the attack.
Impact
Attackers may exploit buffer overflow vulnerabilities in some web servers.
Recommended Actions
This signature's action can be set to "Block" to protect against this attack.
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 32729 |
| Created | Oct 11, 2012 |
| Updated | Apr 02, 2024 |
| Risk |
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| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS |
| Affected App | Other |