From: "Philip R. Auld" <prauld@egenera.com>
To: "Little, John" <JOHN.LITTLE@okdhs.org>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fork() DoS?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:24:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C9B4CA7.5BD03CCB@egenera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E7B0663E34409F45B77EFDB62AE0E4D2022360BD@s99mail02.okdhs.org>
"Little, John" wrote:
>
> I'm really not a programmer, just learning, but was able to bring the system
> to it's knees. This is a redhat 7.2 kernel. Is there anyway of preventing
> this?
Use resource limits on users and don't run fork bombs as root :)
>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> void do_fork()
> {
> pid_t p;
>
> p = fork();
> do_fork();
> }
>
> void main()
> {
> for(;;)
> do_fork();
> }
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-22 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-22 15:16 fork() DoS? Little, John
2002-03-22 15:24 ` Philip R. Auld [this message]
2002-03-22 15:25 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-03-23 22:09 ` Erik Tews
2002-03-24 16:23 ` Mark Mielke
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