From: "Anand Jahagirdar" <anandjigar@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Fork Bombing Attack
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 20:15:32 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25ae38200705170745t4a80e7eer413b3c2bb0c5a327@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hello All
I have set per user process limit ( ulimit) for both
root and guest account as 8000 by using option ulimit -u 8000.this is
Hard limit. still fork bombing attack killed the box and machine
needed reboot. will any body please tell me why this is so? i have
tried all this attack on machine with FC6 and Linux kernel 2.6.18.
Regards
Anand
next reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 14:45 Anand Jahagirdar [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-17 7:25 Fork bombing Attack Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-17 7:39 ` Marat Buharov
2007-05-17 9:07 ` Alan Cox
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