Can this be considered a DoS-attack?
Using mozilla 1.2.1 (but I don't think the browser matters).
Browsed to:
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/linux.html
and tried the "Printer-friendly version" link (CAREFUL HERE: don't
click on the link and then leave home):
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/phpapps/pfv/pfv.php?/techwhirl/magazine/technical/linux.html
Obviously, there's some buggy code on that web server:
Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 PHP/4.2.3
Anyway, the result is that the server will vomit thousends of error
messages like this:
,----
| Warning: fopen("", "rb") - Inappropriate ioctl for device in
| /home/raycomm/web/techwhirl/phpapps/pfv/pfv.php on line 37
|
| Warning: feof(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource
| in /home/raycomm/web/techwhirl/phpapps/pfv/pfv.php on line 39
`----
Leave it going an watch your RAM and swap growing. Memory will be
exausted at some point. I had to:
# killall mozilla-bin
to stop that (when I noticed there wad unnormal load on my box).
Cheers,
Cristian
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