Re: New worm segfaults apache

From: Chris Hardie (chrisat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 16:14:26 PDT

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    We're presently experiencing the same behavior on FreeBSD 4.3 with Apache
    1.3.20 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b.  It seems to be load related: we have
    several other boxes on the network with the same config/versions, but that
    are much lower load and aren't experiencing the segfaults.  For reference,
    the one that IS having problems is serving 3.29 requests/sec - 17.0
    kB/second - 5.2 kB/request.  The normal load is about 1.7 requests/sec.
    
    Any ideas on what's causing this, or a good way to track/truss the child
    process to see what it's doing when it dies?
    
    Chris
    
    
    On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Chip McClure wrote:
    
    > Which version of apache, and what OS are you running?
    >
    > Running Apache 2.0.16, FreeBSD 4.3 - never had a segfault - and a ton of
    > probes against it.
    >
    > ----
    > Chip McClure
    > Sr Unix Administrator
    > GigGuardian, Inc.
    >
    > http://www.gigguardian.com/
    > ----
    >
    > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, bugtraq wrote:
    >
    > > Hello,
    > >
    > >
    > > Over 15 times my apache has segfaulted whenever I get scanned by this worm.
    > >
    > > Sep 18 13:30:15 cgisecurity /kernel: pid 35290 (httpd), uid 1003: exited on signal 11
    > > Sep 18 13:38:03 cgisecurity /kernel: pid 35390 (httpd), uid 1003: exited on signal 11
    > > Sep 18 14:06:00 cgisecurity /kernel: pid 35391 (httpd), uid 1003: exited on signal 11
    > > Sep 18 14:20:51 cgisecurity /kernel: pid 35453 (httpd), uid 1003: exited on signal 11
    > > Sep 18 15:27:22 cgisecurity /kernel: pid 35740 (httpd), uid 1003: exited on signal 11
    > > ^C
    > >
    > > Any idea why apache is segfaulting? I have 250 megs of free ram without proccess limits and
    > > it segfaults. Also I tried every string and have been unable to replicate it manually.
    > >
    > > - adminat_private
    > >
    
    
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