#798007 Apache 2.4 produces massive amounts of zombie processes

Package:
libapache2-mod-fcgid
Source:
libapache2-mod-fcgid
Description:
FastCGI interface module for Apache 2
Submitter:
brain power
Date:
2015-11-28 13:24:05 UTC
Severity:
important
#798007#5
Date:
2015-09-04 12:16:54 UTC
From:
To:
Package: apache2
Version: 2.4.10-10+deb8u1
Severity: important

The version of apache2 in jessie suffers from the following bug:
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53999

As described in the upstream bug report, huge amounts of zombies are
produced
and as soon as their number hits FcgidMaxProcessesPerClass all requests
return 503 Errors.

Some related package versions:
Apache: 2.4.10-10+deb8u1
mod_fcgid: 2.3.9-1+b1
Linux kernel: 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3
PHP: 5.6.12+dfsg-0+deb8u1