What's the meaning of this error message in error log?

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Check file ownership by

ls -la filename

If it is not owned by your user, login as super user and change ownership.

chown myuser:myuser filename