From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@borntraeger.net (Christian Bornträger)
Cc: riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel),
roy@karlsbakk.net (Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk),
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
andihartmann@freenet.de (andreas),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel-Mailingliste)
Subject: Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:23:48 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16pCei-0006tx-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203241757.SAA20700@piggy.rz.tu-ilmenau.de> from "Christian =?iso-8859-1?q?Borntr=E4ger?=" at Mar 24, 2002 06:57:04 PM
> Well, I think could be worth in terms of security, because a local user c=
> ould=20
> use a bad memory-eating program to produce an Denial of Service of other=20
> processes.
>
> Unfortunately detecting a program, written to cause harm is harder than=20
> detecting a crazy program.
Its not about detection its about containment. Thats what the beancounter
patches covered.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-24 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-24 12:09 andreas
[not found] ` <3C9DC6D0.3080606@wanadoo.fr>
2002-03-24 13:24 ` Andreas Hartmann
[not found] ` <3C9DD653.8090701@wanadoo.fr>
2002-03-24 13:36 ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 13:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-24 14:08 ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 16:59 ` Andreas Hartmann
[not found] ` <3C9E48B8.9080707@ngforever.de>
2002-03-24 22:23 ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 15:58 ` Chris Swiedler
2002-03-24 16:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 16:59 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-03-24 17:45 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-24 17:57 ` Christian Bornträger
2002-03-24 18:01 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-24 18:03 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2002-03-24 18:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-03-24 18:37 ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 19:20 ` Itai Nahshon
2002-03-24 17:24 ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 18:23 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-03-24 19:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 19:48 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-03-24 20:39 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 18:32 ` Andreas Hartmann
2002-03-24 19:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 20:43 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2002-03-25 15:09 ` Rok Papež
2002-03-26 20:24 ` dean gaudet
2002-03-26 23:47 ` Alan Cox
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