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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
Michael Ayres
Perhaps a script for sanity checking ulimits could be written? A benchmark script/suite that either creates a config, or verifies that the existing configuration would not allow a single user to bring the machine to its knees? Something like the tests some fps games have to verify the best setting...

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