full-disclosure - quick and ugly DoS with php

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From: lcamtuf at ghettot.org (Michal Zalewski)
Subject: quick and ugly DoS with php

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Guy Cohen wrote:

> 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.

man setrlimit
man bash, then /ulimit
man common_sense wouldn't hurt either

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