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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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simple fork bomb? 2005-03-17
Anonymous
Simple fork bomb?

1. were your limits rationally set? As in sized for your system. My limit is 4095 (though I REALLY shouldn't do that...)

2. Was your memory limits properly sized? This tends to limit the effect of some fork bombs (fork/exec type) since the memory allocated is shared (copy on ...

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