Your message dated Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:51:39 +0200
with message-id <20100821205139.ga10...@phenomenon>
and subject line Re: Bug#508821: mozilla-plugin-gnash: litters the process
space with zombie processes, please waitpid them
has caused the Debian Bug report #508821,
regarding mozilla-plugin-gnash: litters the process space with zombie
processes, please waitpid them
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Package: mozilla-plugin-gnash
Version: 0.8.4-2
Severity: important
The gnash plugin seems to not waitpid for children and that way litters
the process space. For instance liferea has 24 dead gtk-gnash children
on my system.
It looks likely to be easy to create these zombies using specially
crafted websites. So only by viewing a web page it should be possible to
consume the process space and that way cause a denial of service.
It should be possible to frequently invoke waitpid using WNOHANG.
Helmut
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.14 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages mozilla-plugin-gnash depends on:
ii gnash 0.8.4-2 free SWF movie player
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.11-1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxi6 2:1.1.4-1 X11 Input extension library
mozilla-plugin-gnash recommends no packages.
mozilla-plugin-gnash suggests no packages.
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