Dangerous defaults... oldest attack still works
Scot L. Harris
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Wed Jun 8 20:18:21 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:03, Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi again
>
> Is Fedora Core aware that the oldest attack known to Unix still works? I mean
> why don't they put a default to ulimit instead of unilimted?
>
> Does fork bomb ring a bell?
>
> Andy
This item was discussed extensively a few weeks ago....
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Scot L. Harris
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