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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com> on 1996/05/21 06:05:38 UTC
Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Runaway processes when accessing directory listings" on BSDI
Thanks for the report. I think we've already fixed this for the
upcoming version 1.1
Hopefully we'll have that released sometime soon.
cheers,
rob
>Submitter: pete@neis.net
>Operating system: BSDI, version: 2.01
>Version of Apache Used: 1.0.5
>Extra Modules used: none
>URL exhibiting problem:
>
>Symptoms:
>--
>When folks accessed our server looking for a directory without "index.html", we would get runaway httpd's that were sucking down CPU. In debugging, we noticed that there was an incorrectly allocated array which seg-faulted under gdb (compiled -g, no O2). Upon fixing, the runaways seemed to go away...
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>cc -v
>gcc version 1.42
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>mod_dir.c line 620:
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> char buff[23]=" ";
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>should be
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> char buff[24]=" ";