Am 09.04.2014 13:53, schrieb Graham Leggett:
> On 09 Apr 2014, at 1:48 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote:
>> after update openssl and re-new all certificates one question
>> remains: in case of httpd-prefork would a attacker only have
>> been able to compromise the private key and data of his
>> worker-process or as well access the memory of other workers?
> 
> In the case of prefork this wouldn't be true, no - they would only be able to 
> compromise the memory of that process only. They may be able to access 
> username/passwords from previous requests if they were still visible.
> 
> In the case of the worker and event mpms, the memory of other workers could 
> be compromised, yes

thanks a lot - this makes my sleep so much better and i am happy
to use httpd-prefork everywhere with all it's disadvantages in
context of scalability

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