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Linux Kernel Security, Again
Jason Miller, 2005-03-16

It's a sad day when an ancient fork bomb attack can still take down most of the latest Linux distributions.

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Linux Kernel Security, Again 2005-03-17
Karyl Stein
How can you tell the difference between something like a heavily loaded web server and a fork bomb? In both cases you have a non-root user spawning a number of processes. Is it the job of the distro maintainers to make a judgment on what the user's system can handle? Default process, memory use, ...

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