Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 15:47:21 +0200 From: Mark Huizer <freebsd@xaa.iae.nl> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Dusk Auriel Sykotik <syko@sykotik.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, dg@root.com, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory leaks in libc Message-ID: <19980807154721.A865@xaa.iae.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980806093206.222C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>; from Tom on Thu, Aug 06, 1998 at 09:35:47AM -0700 References: <19980806181215.A7652@xaa.iae.nl> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980806093206.222C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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> > 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. > OK, how come a poor little apache server doesn't like this: GET / HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: a User-Agent: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (repeat last 2 lines 20000 times) (empty line) apache on a Linux machine here is still thinking about wheterh or not to return 100M, time to test it on my home FreeBSD server :-) Mark -- Nice testing in little China... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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