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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:05:40 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Branko F. Gra?nar" <bfg@noviforum.si>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.1-p10 reproducible crash with Apache2
Message-ID:  <20031030050540.GA25906@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F9F9884.3020309@noviforum.si>
References:  <3F9F9884.3020309@noviforum.si>

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On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:37:56AM +0100, "Branko F. Gra?nar" wrote:
> Hi.
>=20
> FreeBSD 5.1-p10 (and also possible other 5.1-pX version) can be remotely
> locked up if the following criteria is met:
>=20
> + apache2 has mod_ssl loaded and enabled
> + apache2 has the following configuration directives set to the
> following values:
>=20
> 	SSLMutex sem
> 	SSLSessionCache shm:/some/file(1048576)
>=20
> + client connects via SSL/TLS to apache fast enough.
>=20
> If all conditions above are satisfied except the last one, then lockup
> doesn't happen.
>=20
> I tested on three 5.1-p10 machines (SMP, uniprocessor, uniprocessor with
> hypterthreading) with JMeter 1.9.1.
>=20
> It is possible lockup machine with 100 requests (1 concurrent request)
> in 1-3 seconds.
>=20
> If SSLMutex is set to file:/path/somewhere and SSLSessionCache is set to
> dbm:/some/dbm lockup does not accour.
>=20
> Linux 2.4.22 is not affected by this issue.
>=20
> Details:

What kernel configuration?  What hardware?

Kris

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