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linkregistertoday at 5:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Worker processes are forked from the master, which means they receive the same memory layout. You get unlimited crashes against the worker. There's probably a way to exploit that to get a read oracle. At the very least this is a reliable denial of service.

Depth First's full writeup: https://depthfirst.com/research/nginx-rift-achieving-nginx-r...


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jcalvinowenstoday at 6:05 PM

Sure, but I think the github README ought to make it more clear the POC as-is doesn't work against nginx on any current Linux distro.

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