This is a real bug.
Here is the patch that fixes it.
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=0863a0d6a0f740874b4ef8dc732a4ec94949470c
Here is the bug I filed in the debian BTS.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752366
Without this patch an attacker can launch a denial of
Also, you would not see the leak using memory_get_usage() because the
memory is leaked outside of PHP, but due to PHP's mishandling of the
connection. So dismissing the bug reporter on this basis was not really
fair.
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** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
Status: Expired => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044430
Title:
Php ftp_* eats memory
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Also, a simple "killall openvpn" gets rid of all the derelict processes,
so there doesn't seem to be any reason why the init script's kill would
not have the same effect.
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Public bug reported:
I have a short cron job to check the status of an openvpn tunnel every
so often and restart the link if it seems lost.
*/5 * * * * ping -c1 172.16.30.1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || PATH=$PATH:/sbin
/etc/init.d/openvpn restart >/dev/null 2>&1
Most of the time this works okay. However,
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: elinks
Please add -dump-charset %{charset} to the line in elinks.mime so that
when the mailcap entry is called by another program, the program can
request the proper character set depending on its own context. This
fixes, for example, problems with Mutt
