RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP

Good day, Just reading this thread, figured I would put my $0.02 in. This is apparently a known problem. It seems to occur whenever the php script uses lots of memory, actually, and it does the same thing whether it's run standalone or as a module. I first experienced it when I had a PHP script load a 10 meg LDAP database into memory, which took some 90 Megs of RAM to do (overhead, I guess). If I ran the script standalone, it wouldn't quit right away. If it was run as a module, Apache would have to kill the child off (it logged this activity) if I asked Apache to shut down. If I ran the script a few times, all of the memory of the machine would be used up, and I'd have to kill off Apache to get it back. ============================ Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 -----Original Message----- From: Jason Soza [mailto:solja@gci.net] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:10 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP Mine produced the same error message as yours, Jason, but the memory and CPU usage continued until I hit the 'stop' button on the browser. It seemed to have overridden both time and memory limits, as it had racked up 320 megs of my RAM by the time I stopped it. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Jason Murray [mailto:Jason.Murray@melbourneit.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:57 PM To: 'CC Zona'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Nasty DoS in PHP > So that was both as an Apache mod and a CGI binary? Sounds like it's > reproducible. Running as an Apache module here, it terminated as expected at 30 seconds. Jason -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php