From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Anand Jahagirdar <anandjigar@gmail.com>
Cc: security@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch related with Fork Bombing Atack
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:46:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070531134611.GZ32105@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25ae38200705310645n5e913a91weaa14521908f7989@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 31 2007, Anand Jahagirdar wrote:
> 2) Printk message in my patch will definitely help Administrator/Root
> User to detect which particular user is trying fork bombing attack on
> his machine by looking at /var/log/messages or dmesg . he can take
> action against that particular user and kill his processes.
You just opened a DoS possibility for any user, they can now flood the
syslog instead.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-31 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-31 13:45 Patch related with Fork Bombing Atack Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-31 13:46 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2007-06-01 6:48 ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-06-01 7:25 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-01 7:30 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-01 8:00 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-01 8:02 ` Jens Axboe
2007-06-03 23:01 ` Nix
2007-06-04 1:29 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-04 14:49 ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-06-04 14:58 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-04 15:28 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-05 14:20 ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-06-01 8:38 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-01 14:29 ` Anand Jahagirdar
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