Title: MacOS X Server Overload Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
A vulnerability in the MacOS X Server may crash it while under heavy load.
The vulnerability appears while stress testing a server running the Apache web server and 32 or more process are concurntly doing HTTP GET request to a CGI script in a loop. The system will panic and display a stack trace with ipc_task_init.
Although the vulnerability is not related to web servering it can only be reproduced so far using this means.
Affected Products:
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.0.0
References:
- Jürgen Schmidt, Stephan Ehrman: CGI Causes MacOS X Server To Panic
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