Re: Apache under attack and eating resources?

From: Philip Paeps (philip+freebsd_at_paeps.cx)
Date: 09/29/03

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    Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:29:20 +0200
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    On 2003-09-28 19:27:53 (-0700), Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> wrote:
    > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:59:39AM +0200, Philip Paeps wrote:
    > > This might be more related to an Apache-security list, but as the machine
    > > is running FreeBSD, I thought I'd ask here first.
    > >
    > > In the last two weeks, I've been seeing some very strange errors in my
    > > logs a few times daily around the same times. While this happens, load
    > > averages go through the roof (I've seen 36+, which is outragous), and the
    > > machine becomes very unresponsive.
    > >
    > > First there's a few million of these:
    >
    > [snip]
    >
    > Are you running any CGI's, or other server-side scripts? Bugs in your
    > scripts could cause things like this, and make it look like it's apache
    > which is at fault.

    I forgot to mention I was running mod_php4 from the ports. I don't think any
    scripts changed in the last few weeks, but I'll have a look into it. Any idea
    what kind of script bugs could cause PHP to tear things down like this, other
    than the classic loop from hell?

    Thanks!

     - Philip 

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