From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
marado@student.dei.uc.pt
Subject: Re: grsecurity 2.1.0 release / 5 Linux kernel advisories (fwd)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:40:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050107134014.3ac297f3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd305010713032aeaa75c@mail.gmail.com>
Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> the below email seems to be very intersting.
An unprivileged local user can DoS a Linux box to death with malloc and
memset, so the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK bug isn't particularly exceptional. All the
others require root anyway.
I'll pass this on to appropriate people, see if we can get this all fixed
up, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-07 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-07 19:54 grsecurity 2.1.0 release / 5 Linux kernel advisories (fwd) Marcos D. Marado Torres
2005-01-07 21:03 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2005-01-07 21:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-01-07 22:49 ` Alan Cox
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