Public bug reported:
This bug occurs when you enter a very long line in the hosts file to
create a set of aliases for local web development. Steps to produce:
1) Add a single line to your /etc/hosts file with many sites, eg.
127.0.0.1 local.devsite1.com local.devsite2.org, ....
I had about 170 sites on a single line.
2) Attempt to connect to one of the local sites. In my case, whenever
the PHP code attempted to connect to a postgres database, apache
segfaulted.
3) A similar crash can happen in firefox. Attempt to browse to a local
site, and firefox crashes with a segafault warning.
My Local setup:
1) Ubuntu Edgy, up to date at date of submitting this bug.
2) Apache 2, installed via apt.
3) Postgres 8.2, installed via apt.
4) PHP5.2.1 - compiled from source and installed with checkinstall.
5) Firefox 2.0.0.1
I have solved this problem on my local machine by splitting all of the
sites listed on the single line on to separate lines. For this reason,
I think the bug was a buffer overflow in the low-level networking libs,
as the above fix worked for both apache AND firefox.
--Robin
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Segfaults in Apache and Firefox
https://launchpad.net/bugs/85540
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