, 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
, 2005-03-16 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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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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