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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
At which point, doesn't this make it a distribution problem, not a kernel problem? You seem to be hinting at this in your article, but you also seem to be hinting that the blame lies in the kernel itself.

i.e. on an old RH9 box /etc/security/limits.conf there are no limits set. That's not the fau...

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