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

No, they weren't. That's the point. They should be reasonably set by default. Should a regular user *really* be allowed to run 4095 processes on your machine by default? By h...

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