Dennis Fisher talks with Robert Rsnake Hansen about his Slowloris tool, low-bandwidth DoS attacks and the law of unintended consequences. The flaw stems from an issue with the ingress packet processing function of Cisco IOS XR software. In all, WordPress patched 10 security bugs as part of the release of version 5.5.2 of its web publishing software. The bug is a high-severity bug that could enable code execution, denial of service and more.
Source: https://threatpost.com/robert-rsnake-hansen-slowloris-dos-attacks-and-rfc-1918-networks-062909/72827/