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Serious CGI Bug in MacOS X Servers

Posted by Hemos on from the whoop-whoop-red-alert dept.

menthos writes "Multiple CGI queries appearently causes the MacOS X server kernel to do a "System Panic", making MacOS X almost useless as a web server. The German computer magazine c't has the story (in english) "

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  1. Not Worthless by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 4

    This got alot of coverage yesterday on the Macintosh sites.

    MacOsRumors talked about it and I am going to quote them.

    "1. This problem has so far been only reproduced when the 32+ CGI processes are spawned by a benchmarking CGI -- this problem may or may not actually affect other types of CGIs. It is very possible that it does not. Thus, the problem can be avoided simply by removing the Apache Benchmark CGI from the cgi-bin directory or setting its permissions to prevent it from running ("chmod 500 filename.cgi" should be sufficient).

    2. The problem is not fundamental to OS X, according to Apple sources. Although the specific issue has not yet been determined, it appears to be related to Apache's use of system resources (although the issue itself is apparently in the kernel) and is not likely to affect OS X under any other conditions. A patch is in development and should be available very soon."

    Since when does a bug make something "worthless", oh when it's made by Apple.