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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 2005-03-18
Anonymous
Exactly; local users can always hose a box. Its pointless to attack Linux for this. I bet the *BSDs can all be taken down by a local user; maybe not with trivial stuff like this but what about /tmp on swap? I mean, the only way to control local users is to log extensively and assign blame on the bac...

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