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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


  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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