Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:27:53 -0700 From: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache under attack and eating resources? Message-ID: <20030929022753.GC334@silverwraith.com> In-Reply-To: <20030928235939.GH629@hermes.home.paeps.cx>
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:59:39AM +0200, Philip Paeps wrote: > This might be more related to an Apache-security list, but as the machine is > running FreeBSD, I thought I'd ask here first. > > In the last two weeks, I've been seeing some very strange errors in my logs a > few times daily around the same times. While this happens, load averages go > through the roof (I've seen 36+, which is outragous), and the machine becomes > very unresponsive. > > First there's a few million of these: [snip] Are you running any CGI's, or other server-side scripts? Bugs in your scripts could cause things like this, and make it look like it's apache which is at fault.home | help
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