Re: [PATCH] execve argument logging

Steve Grubb
2006-04-21T20:23:39Z

On Friday 21 April 2006 16:19, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Does this allow an attacker to DoS the audit log by creating a fork/exec
> loop intentionally invoking a totally duff binary, but that includes a very
> long argument?

I personally haven't tried. Try it and let us know if you can DoS the machine.

> Maybe a "first 32/64 bytes of each argument" limit is needed?  Or is there
> one there and I missed it?

There's no limit other than what the kernel imposes.

-Steve