From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 23 9:16:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from prox.centtech.com (moat2.centtech.com [206.196.95.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 839F037B423 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 09:16:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by prox.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id IAA18095; Wed, 23 May 2001 08:13:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from proton.centtech.com(10.177.173.77) by prox via smap (V2.1+anti-relay+anti-spam) id xma018093; Wed, 23 May 01 08:13:20 -0500 Message-ID: <3B0BB771.C03A9DD7@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:13:21 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Radzewitz Cc: "'security@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: apache_logs/system hang up References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It may very well be security related, but it doesn't sound too FreeBSD related. More apache and linux. Good luck with it... Eric Michael Radzewitz wrote: > > Hello Alexandr, > > currently the system is running under redhat linux 6.2 > with kernel 2.2.14-5.0 and apache 1.3.14 on a intel i686 > > I try to reproduce this error. I think it's a security > issue and should be disscused when a unnormal http-request > is able to stop a running system. > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Alexandr P. Kovalenko [mailto:never@uic-in.net] > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2001 10:37 > > An: Michael Radzewitz > > Cc: 'security@freebsd.org' > > Betreff: Re: apache_logs/system hang up > > > > > > Hello, Michael Radzewitz! > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:00:46AM +0200, you wrote: > > > > > Hello Marc, > > > > > > the system wasn't able to do anything so that i had to > > reset it by hand. > > > Tonight the same thing happend. Acctually I would think > > there must be > > > something wrong on my site. The characters contain nothing else > > > than hundreds of these: ^@^@^@ > > > They do not look like a typically binary file. It's always the same > > > corner of the internet which one of my users visit and > > which causes the > > > trouble one minute later. > > > > > > Today I plugged a monitor in to see what happend and i got > > the message: > > > > > > login: unable to login > > > > > > followed by a kernel panic and the normal core dump output > > of a linux > > > system. > > > > > > As I mentioned before I thing there is something wrong on my site > > > but I am a little bit concerned about the: unable to login message. > > > I will monitor this problem until the end of the week - > > maybe i get some > > > more information about it. Later than I will swap the > > system to FreeBSD. > > Sorry, what apache versions are you running and what are uname -a's ? > > /me have similar situation, periodically machine locks up. > > When on last second I'm able to run top I see that swap is > > filled and apache is > > about 350Mb.... Maybe it is common problem/security issue > > > > -- > > NEVE-RIPE > > ICQ: 36925929 http://www.nevermind.kiev.ua/ > > Powered by caffeine. Made with beer. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Anderson anderson@centtech.com Centaur Technology (512) 418-5792 The idea is to die young as late as possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message