From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Charles Cazabon <linux@discworld.dyndns.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Forking shell bombs
Date: 08 Jul 2003 23:01:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1057701680.5572.4.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030708125520.B27956@discworld.dyndns.org>
On Maw, 2003-07-08 at 19:55, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net> wrote:
> >
> > [Fork bomb] and watch linux die. (2.4.21 stock)
>
> That's what per-user process limits are for. Doesn't matter if it's a
> shellscript or something else; any system without limits set is vulnerable.
In general turning on vm overcommit protection on a -ac tree should
be sufficient - per user limits are better
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-08 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-08 18:45 Ryan Underwood
2003-07-08 18:55 ` Charles Cazabon
2003-07-08 22:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-08 19:23 ` jhigdon
2003-07-08 20:35 ` vlad
2003-07-08 20:28 Ryan Underwood
2003-07-08 20:37 ` vlad
2003-07-08 20:43 ` jhigdon
2003-07-08 21:25 ` Ryan Underwood
2003-07-08 22:43 ` Sir Ace
2003-07-09 15:07 ` David Ford
2003-07-09 21:10 ` Ryan Underwood
2003-07-13 9:10 ` Riley Williams
2003-07-13 9:40 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-13 14:17 ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-08 21:59 ` system_lists
2003-07-08 17:18 ` Max Valdez
2003-07-08 22:25 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-08 22:26 ` Svein Ove Aas
2003-07-08 22:51 ` Ryan Underwood
2003-07-10 12:32 ` Luiz Capitulino
2003-07-08 23:05 ` Wakko Warner
2003-07-09 11:36 ` Michael Buesch
2003-07-08 22:26 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-07-09 11:05 Arvind Kandhare
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