From: "Anand Jahagirdar" <anandjigar@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Fork bombing Attack
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:55:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25ae38200705170025m23fe8ea9s81515ec8d1a0a137@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Dear Sir,
I just want to know whether fork bombing attack still
exist on the machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and Linux
Kernel 2.6.x.?
additional Info : I have set ulimit as 8000 and loged in
as Guest User on machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and
Linux kernel 2.6.18. simple fork bombing program while(1) fork();
killed the box and machine needed reboot. will any body please tell me
why fork bombing attack killed the box even after setting ulimit as
8000?
Regards
Anand
next reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 7:25 Anand Jahagirdar [this message]
2007-05-17 7:39 ` Marat Buharov
2007-05-17 9:07 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-17 14:45 Fork Bombing Attack Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-17 15:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-18 11:13 ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-18 13:07 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-05-18 13:19 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-05-18 17:22 ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-18 17:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-18 21:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-18 22:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-05-22 21:52 ` Mark Lord
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