To configure the defense, select your product from the list below and follow the related protection steps.
VPN-1 NGX R65 & R62
How Can I Protect My Network?
1. In the SmartDefense tab, click Web Intelligence > HTTP Protocol Inspection > HTTP Format Sizes.
2. In the configuration pane, under Settings > Mode, check Active.
3. Under Format Sizes Configuration, check the Max Header Value Length box.
4. The header length value should be less than 4096.
5. Install policy on all modules.
How Do I Know if My Network is Under Attack?
SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: HTTP Format Sizes
Attack Information: WSE0020003 header length exceeded maximum allowed length in request
VPN-1 NGX R61 & R60
How Can I Protect My Network?
1. In the Web Intelligence tree, click HTTP Protocol Inspection > HTTP Format Sizes.
2. In the configuration pane, check the Max Header Value Length box.
3. The header length value should be less than 4096.
4. Install security policy on all modules.
How Do I Know if My Network is Under Attack?
SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: HTTP Format Sizes
Attack Information: WSE0020003 header length exceeded maximum allowed length in request
VPN-1 NG with Application Intelligence R55
How Can I Protect My Network?
1. In the SmartDefense tree, click Application Intelligence > Web > HTTP Protocol Inspection > Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities > HTTP Format Sizes.
2. In the configuration pane, check the Max URL Length box.
3. The URL length value should be less than 4096.
4. Install security policy on all modules.
How Do I Know if My Network is Under Attack?
SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: HTTP Format Sizes
Attack Information: WSE0020004 URL length exceeded allowed maximum length in request
VPN-1 VSX NGX R65
How Can I Protect My Network?
1. In the SmartDefense tab, click Web Intelligence > HTTP Protocol Inspection > HTTP Format Sizes.
2. In the configuration pane, under Settings > Mode, check Active.
3. Under Format Sizes Configuration, check the Max Header Value Length box.
4. The header length value should be less than 4096.
5. Install policy on all modules.
How Do I Know if My Network is Under Attack?
SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: HTTP Format Sizes
Attack Information: WSE0020003 header length exceeded maximum allowed length in request
VPN-1 VSX NGX
How Can I Protect My Network?
1. In the SmartDefense tree, click Application Intelligence > Web > HTTP Protocol Inspection > Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities > HTTP Format Sizes.
2. In the configuration pane, check the Max URL Length box.
3. The URL length value should be less than 4096.
4. Install security policy on all modules.
How Do I Know if My Network is Under Attack?
SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: HTTP Format Sizes
Attack Information: WSE0020004 URL length exceeded allowed maximum length in request
InterSpect NGX
How Can I Protect My Network?
1. In the left pane, select Profiles > Default Protection and select the Web Intelligence page of the profile.
2. In the Web Intelligence tree, click HTTP Protocol Inspection > HTTP Format Sizes.
3. In the configuration pane, under Format Sizes Configuration, check the Max Header Value Length box.
4. The header length value should be less than 4096.
5. Install security policy on all modules.
How Do I Know if My Network is Under Attack?
SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: HTTP Format Sizes
Attack Information: WSE0020003 header length exceeded maximum allowed length in request
Connectra NGX R62 & R61
How Can I Protect My Network?
1. In the navigation tree, click Security > Web Intelligence.
2. In the HTTP Protocol Inspection pane click the HTTP Format protection.
3. Install policy on all modules.
How Do I Know if My Network is Under Attack?
Upon attack, the following entries will be logged:
Attack Name: HTTP Format Sizes
Attack Information: WSE0020003 header length exceeded maximum allowed length in request
IPS-1 & IPS-1 NGX R65
How Can I Protect My Network?
1. In the IPS-1 Policy Manager, click on the Protection tab.
2. In the Protection tree, click Web Intelligence > WWW 2, and select the Apache Attacks protection group.
3. Click CVE-2007-0774 Long HTTP URI (IPS-1 NGX R65 only).
4. In the configuration pane, under Settings, check Active.
5. Click on Install Policy.
How Do I Know if My Network is Under Attack?
Upon attack, the following entry will be logged:
Alert Name: www2_apache
Description: cve_2007_0774_alert
