Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "apache dumps core with SSI & symlink" on BSDI

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting the problem and providing the backtrace.

cheers,
rob

jsd@cyborganic.com wrote:
>
>Submitter: jsd@cyborganic.com
>Operating system: BSDI, version: 2.1
>Version of Apache Used: 1.1.1
>Extra Modules used: none
>URL exhibiting problem: 
>
>Symptoms:
>--
>user was doing a server-side include.  the include
>had a symbolic link in it.  for some reason, it
>worked fine on one machine but dumped core on the
>other.  by getting rid of the symlink it solved the
>core dump problem.
>--
>
>Backtrace:
>--
>#0  0x44265 in kill ()
>#1  0x437c3 in abort ()
>#2  0x3840 in seg_fault () at http_main.c:939
>#3  <signal handler called>
>#4  0x76f2 in get_module_config (conf_vector=0xb2074, m=0x0)
>    at http_config.c:109
>#5  0xb29b in log_reason (reason=0x9590 "Symbolic link not allowed", 
>    file=0x7c60c "/www/Cyborganic/People/", r=0x7c034) at http_log.c:186
>#6  0x9888 in directory_walk (r=0x7c034) at http_request.c:285
>#7  0x9fc5 in sub_req_lookup_uri (
>    new_file=0x8c084 "/People/sonic/footer.html", r=0xb20dc)
>    at http_request.c:515
>#8  0x1bf34 in handle_include (in=0xb000c, r=0xb20dc, 
>    error=0xefbf9ba8 "[an error occurred while processing this directive]", 
>    noexec=0) at mod_include.c:392
>#9  0x1d339 in send_parsed_content (f=0xb000c, r=0xb20dc) at mod_include.c:742
>#10 0x1d82a in send_parsed_file (r=0xb20dc) at mod_include.c:848
>#11 0x1d86a in send_shtml_file (r=0xb20dc) at mod_include.c:857
>#12 0x7e38 in invoke_handler (r=0xb20dc) at http_config.c:282
>#13 0xa975 in process_request_internal (r=0xb20dc) at http_request.c:768
>#14 0xa9ab in process_request (r=0xb20dc) at http_request.c:777
>#15 0x4324 in child_main (child_num_arg=0) at http_main.c:1247
>#16 0x44e5 in make_child (server_conf=0x58034, child_num=0) at http_main.c:1293
>#17 0x4aff in standalone_main (argc=3, argv=0xefbfdd24) at http_main.c:1439
>#18 0x4df1 in main (argc=3, argv=0xefbfdd24) at http_main.c:1529
>
>--
>


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