Bug 123549
| Summary: | httpd process name overwritten by mod_perl bug | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Fedora Legacy | Reporter: | Nathan Ollerenshaw <chrome> |
| Component: | mod_perl | Assignee: | Fedora Legacy Bugs <bugs> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | fc2 | CC: | mattdm, mjc |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | LEGACY, 2, DEFER | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-08-13 14:12:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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mod_perl-1.99_14 has been released. It fixes some important bugs, nothing security related that I can see - still, if you guys are going to rebuild this package, might be good idea to go to 14. [Bulk move of FC2 bugs to Fedora Legacy. See <http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-April/msg00020.html>.] This doesn't seem to be important enough to fix just on its own, so mark it DEFER. |
Description of problem: There is some overflow in 1.99_12 which causes the process name in the ps list to be overwritten with bogus values. For example, /usr/sbin/httpd will be overwritten to be /usr/sbin/-e Not cool, and indicates possible buffer overflow. I fixed the problem by download the SRPM for 1.99_12, downloading the source fo 1.99_13 from the perl.apache.org site, and updating the spec file then recompiling. The symptoms went away. I'm marking this as High severity because it could be indicative of a severe memory leak - under testing with a complex mod_perl webapp (@mail) I found a process with over 1GB of memory assigned to it. After upgrading mod_perl this problem went away. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mod_perl-1.99_12-2.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fedora core 2 (or core 1) 2. Install mod_perl 3. run some mod_perl app and watch the process name get overwritten Additional info: