On Thursday 25 Aug 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Anyone have any idea how soon RHEL and CentOS will be releasing the patch > package? > > Excerpt: > Computerworld - Developers of the Apache open-source project today > warned users of the popular Web server software that a denial-of-service > (DoS) tool is circulating that exploits a bug in the program. > > The tool, called "Apache Killer," showed up last Friday in a post to the > "Full Disclosure" security mailing list. > > Today, the Apache project acknowledged the vulnerability that the attack > tool exploits, and said it would release a fix for Apache 2.0 and 2.2 in > the next 48 hours. > --- end excerpt --- > > <http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219471/Apache_warns_Web_server_adm > ins_of_DoS_attack_tool> There are some work-around suggestions here: http://lwn.net/Articles/456268/