fork bomb attack
Paul Iadonisi
pri.rhl3 at iadonisi.to
Sat Mar 19 14:49:42 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 15:20 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
[snip]
> or print to a
> remote machine called "localhost" - thats effectively a forkbomb...
Ewe! That sounds like an insanely simple exploit. Anyone want to
confirm this? If it's that easy, I'd call it bug.
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-Paul Iadonisi
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