Re: grsecurity 2.1.0 release / 5 Linux kernel advisories (fwd)

Andrew Morton
2005-01-07T21:38:21Z

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.