From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 09:38:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA03304 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:38:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA03254 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:37:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0z4T13-0004Kq-00; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:35:49 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:35:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Mark Huizer cc: Dusk Auriel Sykotik , Bruce Evans , dg@root.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory leaks in libc In-Reply-To: <19980806181215.A7652@xaa.iae.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Mark Huizer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 12:07:04PM -0400, Dusk Auriel Sykotik wrote: > > Apache uses them quite frequently. And this could make it very costly on > > large webservers. Where I work, we have hundreds of connections to some > > of our webservers per minute. We also use cgi scripts very frequently, > > and these use *env* functions quite frequently as well. > > > > /* > > * Matt Harris +++ Syko > > * BPSOFH, BIOFH, C, SQL, PERL +++ http://starix.technonet.net/~syko/ > > * FreeBSD SysAdmin +++ apocalypse.sykotik.org > > */ > > Hmm... then we should write a nice DoS attack for apache, would that be a > reason for solving it? Couldn't be done. CGI scripts are so short lived, that that memory gets cleaned up on its own anyhow. Perhaps specific a DoS attack could be tailored to a specific CGI script, but I would argue that the CGI script is broken. CGI is used less and less anyhow, as peole use better and faster methods of server side scripting. > Mark Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message