Dave Ewart wrote:
>
> FWIW, for me, a manual '/etc/init.d/apache reload' *does* cause the
> problem too. My difficulty therefore reduces completely to be
> "/etc/init.d/apache reload makes Apache die".
>
> Apache is version 1.3.26-0woody5 and included PHP support (version
> 4.1.2-7.0.1) - on a Woody system. Problem started happening
> at the same date as Jon has indicated.
Hrm. Looking back through DSAs, the only thing even remotely related
that was updated around that time was libpng{,3}. Do you have php4-gd
(or php4-gd2) loaded, by any chance, or perhaps some other apache module
that might be loading libpng? Does downgrading all relevant libpng
packages to the previous vulnerable versions help (or disabling
php4-gd)? If not, the date seems to be a bit of a red herring, as
nothing directly related to apache or PHP was updated in Woody around
October 25...
... Adam
