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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? 2005-03-18
Eric F.
Distributions should include in their installer a quick-and-dirty detection scheme that sets reasonable limits based on the hardware.

Knowledgeable users can then go change it if they know they're going to be running a heavy load, but it eliminates the most common concern: the average user isn'...

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