RE: [mv] Minimate causing minivend server to crash

[Cameron Prince <PRINCECB@novachem.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from Cameron Prince <PRINCECB@novachem.com>     ******

Be sure your TCP Host variable is defined.

I had the same trouble and interestingly enough, I found that I could access
the catalog using MiniMate without crashing the catalog once I had defined
TCP HOST as the machine I was connecting from.

BUT! If I disconnected from my ISP and reconnected I got I new ip address.
If I accessed the MiniMate again it would crash MiniVend.

So that means if anyone scans your box and finds MiniVend listening on a
port, they can possibly crash your catalog by trying to access it with their
MiniMate.

TALK ABOUT A SECURITY PROBLEM.

I set the port to nothing and run minivend in UNIX mode only and it solved
the problem.

I can still use MiniMate by the following url:

http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/catalog/config/menu




Cameron

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
[mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]  On Behalf Of Chris Rapier
Sent:	Monday, April 24, 2000 2:49 PM
To:	minivend-users@minivend.com
Subject:	[mv] Minimate causing minivend server to crash

******    message to minivend-users from Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu>
******

I've installed minivend 4.03 with perl 5.00503 on a freebsd box running
2.2.6. This is an isp shell machine and they didn't have the version of
perl I needed to I installed the perl binaries and libraries in the
client's directory.

When I start the minivend server with minimate enabled the server dumps
a 12mb perl core withing a minute or the first time I try and access a
minivend served page. If minimate is disabled then the server seems to
work without problem. This is kind of annoying as minimate was one of
the selling points I used with these clients. 

Can anyone think of a reason why minimate would cause it to crash? Could
it be a setting I used in compiling perl? Some issue related to the
local in stalation of perl? Any ideas at all would be appreciated.
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