httpd crashes with malformed request

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Our httpd has processes crashing in operations like below and this seems to occur after some malformed request has been received (like an http connection to an https port):
#0  ap_increment_counts (sb=<optimized out>, r=r@entry=0x7f9744004980) at scoreboard.c:379
#1  0x000055f3408ea1c0 in eor_bucket_cleanup (data=<optimized out>) at eor_bucket.c:37
#2  0x00007f9779e1271b in run_cleanups () from /opt/rh/jbcs-httpd24/root/usr/lib64/libapr-1.so.0
#3  0x00007f9779e11575 in apr_pool_destroy () from /opt/rh/jbcs-httpd24/root/usr/lib64/libapr-1.so.0
#4  0x000055f3408ea2d6 in remove_empty_buckets (bb=bb@entry=0x7f974c0013b8) at core_filters.c:749
#5  0x000055f3408ea67c in send_brigade_nonblocking (s=s@entry=0x7f974c000a40, bb=bb@entry=0x7f974c0013b8, bytes_written=bytes_written@entry=0x7f974c0012f0, c=c@entry=0x7f974c000ce8) at core_filters.c:739
#6  0x000055f3408eb421 in send_brigade_blocking (c=<optimized out>, bytes_written=0x7f974c0012f0, bb=0x7f974c0013b8, s=0x7f974c000a40) at core_filters.c:762
#7  ap_core_output_filter (f=0x7f974c001190, new_bb=<optimized out>) at core_filters.c:551
#8  0x000055f3408fab93 in ap_shutdown_conn (c=c@entry=0x7f974c000ce8, flush=flush@entry=1) at connection.c:88

Environment

  • JBoss Core Services (JBCS) httpd

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