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Posted to bugs@httpd.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2008/05/17 16:34:52 UTC

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 43977] current child pid-number is transfered to http-clients

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43977





--- Comment #2 from Ralf H <ra...@stormbind.net>  2008-05-17 07:34:51 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> It is not a bug.  Having the pid does not give the receiver
> any useful information.  Any code running on the server will
> have access to all of the pids via standard os utilities.
> 

Ok, but only for completeness:

After i wrote a more useful script [1] that retrieves the pid
i ask google a bit and i found:

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/11438 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-1418 

http://www.openbsd.org/errata32.html#httpd 

best regards
  ralf

[1]:
http://ralf.stormbind.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/retrieve-remote-apache-pid.pl


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