[K12OSN] Is Fedora fork bomb attack vulnerable?

Robert Arkiletian robark at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 18:49:18 UTC 2005


Just read an article on Slashdot about most distros being vulnerable
to fork bombs. Basically a script which calls itself and allocates
memory. So it's a recursive attack that launches infinite processes
bringing the server to its knees. Is k12ltsp proctected from this by
default?

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Robert Arkiletian
C++ GUI tutorial http://fltk.org/links.php?V19




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