[K12OSN] Is Fedora fork bomb attack vulnerable?

[Doug Simpson]

No is not vulnerable, or
No it is not protected?



Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Huck wrote:

> no
> 
> 
> Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> > 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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