In my shared hosting account, I noticed the following error in the Error Log of CPanel under Main Error Log.
I need to know what's the danger of this error, where we see the words victim and attacker ? and what's it mean?
[Wed Nov 14 16:26:28 2012] [error] [client xx.163.xxx.xxx] Caught race
condition abuser. attacker: 2194, victim: 0 open file owner: 0,
referer: http://www.orleansren.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi
It is probably this: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@httpd.apache.org/msg55666.html, but is probably not an issue unless you are the website listed: http://www.orleansren.com/. There was the opportunity for some one to change a symlink while it was being accessed. You seeing this message means it has been patched.
Bad permission or ownership can also trigger this error. I have resolved it by changing ownership of my application directory. It was owned by root before.