Re: FreeBSD 5.1-p10 reproducible crash with Apache2

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 10/30/03

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    Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:05:40 -0800
    To: "Branko F. Gra?nar" <bfg@noviforum.si>
    
    
    

    On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:37:56AM +0100, "Branko F. Gra?nar" wrote:
    > Hi.
    >
    > FreeBSD 5.1-p10 (and also possible other 5.1-pX version) can be remotely
    > locked up if the following criteria is met:
    >
    > + apache2 has mod_ssl loaded and enabled
    > + apache2 has the following configuration directives set to the
    > following values:
    >
    > SSLMutex sem
    > SSLSessionCache shm:/some/file(1048576)
    >
    > + client connects via SSL/TLS to apache fast enough.
    >
    > If all conditions above are satisfied except the last one, then lockup
    > doesn't happen.
    >
    > I tested on three 5.1-p10 machines (SMP, uniprocessor, uniprocessor with
    > hypterthreading) with JMeter 1.9.1.
    >
    > It is possible lockup machine with 100 requests (1 concurrent request)
    > in 1-3 seconds.
    >
    > If SSLMutex is set to file:/path/somewhere and SSLSessionCache is set to
    > dbm:/some/dbm lockup does not accour.
    >
    > Linux 2.4.22 is not affected by this issue.
    >
    > Details:

    What kernel configuration? What hardware?

    Kris

    
    



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