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Re: PHP Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service


From: vjt <vejeta () azzurra org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:22:22 +0200

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 08:45:17PM -0500, Matthew Murphy wrote:
The PHP interpreter is a heavy-duty CGI EXE (or SAPI module, depending on
configuration) that implements an HTML-embedded script language.  A
vulnerability in PHP can be used to cause a denial of service in some cases.
[cut]
Exploit: http://www.murphy.101main.net/php-apache.c


this does not apply when the php interpreter is dynamically loaded by
apache using the DSO interface (or whatever dynamic loading interface
of whatever web server). and afaik this is a more common approach when
dealing with unix web servers.

best regards,
    vjt

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