<story><title>Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server</title><url>https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/developers-fix-multitude-of-vulnerabilities-in-apache-http-server</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DonHopkins</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s called Apache HTTP server because it&amp;#x27;s A Patchy HTTP Server.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mail-archive.com&amp;#x2F;fedora-list@redhat.com&amp;#x2F;msg06924.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mail-archive.com&amp;#x2F;fedora-list@redhat.com&amp;#x2F;msg06924...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;On Jul 16, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Alexandre Oliva wrote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Apache wasn&amp;#x27;t the original name.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;It was and it wasn&amp;#x27;t.  It was indeed a bunch of patches on top of the
(also younger) NCSA http server.  That&amp;#x27;s where &amp;quot;a patchy http server&amp;quot;
came from.  But that was &amp;#x27;90s already, some ten years after GNU
started.</text></comment>
<story><title>Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server</title><url>https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/developers-fix-multitude-of-vulnerabilities-in-apache-http-server</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>iBotPeaches</author><text>This was an interesting security patch that marked the first time in my memory that updating Apache led to an immediate regression. A few hours after taking this upgrade many systems experienced such strange timeout errors. Connections were low and couldn&amp;#x27;t pinpoint the misleading behavior that looked like a slowloris attack, with no connections.&lt;p&gt;Half a day later with no resolution in research a new patch [1] was available and problem resolved.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;apache&amp;#x2F;httpd&amp;#x2F;commit&amp;#x2F;8720881b0634383145e87334f1456cbcab4cb6cc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;apache&amp;#x2F;httpd&amp;#x2F;commit&amp;#x2F;8720881b0634383145e87...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>