Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:35:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Mark Huizer <freebsd@xaa.iae.nl> 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: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980806093206.222C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <19980806181215.A7652@xaa.iae.nl>
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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
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