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Bug #18863 PHP leaves a SYSV semaphore unclosed (php -v). Denial of service possibility.
Submitted: 2002-08-12 00:34 UTC Modified: 2002-10-26 01:00 UTC
Votes:6
Avg. Score:4.8 ± 0.4
Reproduced:6 of 6 (100.0%)
Same Version:4 (66.7%)
Same OS:5 (83.3%)
From: bryce at redhat dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: 4.1.2 OS: RHAT Linux (i386 and Alpha)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-08-12 00:34 UTC] bryce at redhat dot com 
I've been contacted by a php user in the wild who told me that by simply issuing 'php -v', a semaphore that php opens for session management is not closed on exit.

This becomes bad news because the ipc system on linux is a global resource and not based per user, so it's possible for a local user to DOS the box by running php -v repeatidly.

[test@alpha3 test]$ ipcs > l
[test@alpha3 test]$ php -v
Content-type: text/html
4.1.2
[test@alpha3 test]$ ipcs > ll
[test@alpha3 test]$ diff l ll
9a10,11
> 0x00000000 65538      test      600        1         
> 0x00000000 98307      test      600        1         

I tried to trace this out between 4.1.2 and 4.2.2 (4.2.2 does not exhibit this behaviour) but I can find no obvious differances in the codepaths between versions. This behaviour seems to be present all the way back to 4.0.6 from the little additional checking I made.

Please see 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71097
For a more detailed analysis

The RH 4.1.2 configure incantation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-config-file-path=/etc --enable-force-cgi-redirect --disable-debug --enable-pic --disable-rpath --enable-inline-optimization --with-bz2 --with-db3 --with-curl --with-dom=/usr --with-exec-dir=/usr/bin --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-ttf --with-gdbm --with-gettext --with-ncurses --with-gmp --with-iconv --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-mm --with-openssl --with-png --with-pspell --with-regex=system --with-xml --with-expat-dir=/usr --with-zlib --with-layout=GNU --enable-bcmath --enable-debugger --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-magic-quotes --enable-safe-mode --enable-sockets --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-discard-path --enable-track-vars --enable-trans-sid --enable-yp --enable-wddx --without-oci8 --with-imap=shared --with-imap-ssl --with-kerberos=/usr/kerberos --with-ldap=shared --with-mysql=shared,/usr --with-pgsql=shared --with-snmp=shared,/usr --with-snmp=shared --enable-ucd-snmp-hack --with-unixODBC=shared --enable-memory-limit --enable-bcmath --enable-shmop --enable-versioning --enable-calendar --enable-dbx --enable-dio --enable-mbstring --enable-mbstr-enc-trans --enable-force-cgi-redirect


Phil
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 [2002-08-12 09:51 UTC] sander@php.net 
IIRC, this was fixed someday...  if it works with 4.2.2 than it's no longer a bug. Please try a (non-STABLE) snapshot from http://snaps.php.net and reopen this report if the problem still persists.
 [2002-10-10 00:25 UTC] mrfloppy at ntrippy dot net 
I have just compiled and tested this on RH7.2 ans 4.2.4-dev and the same behaviour still exists.

If you run php -v enough times (in my case 58 times) you end up with a whole bunch of semaphore arrays that have not been cleaned up and php dying when run fit rom the command line with:

$ php -v
Content-type: text/html

PHP Fatal error:  Unable to start session mm module in Unknown on line 0
 [2002-10-10 06:47 UTC] wez@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip
 [2002-10-26 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over 2 weeks, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 
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