From: "Denys Fedoryshchenko" <denys@visp.net.lb>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DoS by cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack ?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 16:24:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080308142254.M64724@visp.net.lb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D28786.80600@gmail.com>
For me personally, i think must be as a rule, that _READING_ must not hang
whole system by consuming all resources (router becoming completely
unreachable and blocking all traffic passing thru it). It can hang console,
current program, but not crash router.
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:33:10 +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote
> Jarek Poplawski wrote, On 03/08/2008 01:26 PM:
> ....
>
> > I think, Denys is concerned about some other, maybe too curious users
> > if they can read this?
>
> OOPS! I see it's root only...
>
> Then only their curiosity could be dangerous here!
>
> Sorry,
> Jarek P.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-08 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-06 13:43 DoS by cat /proc/net/ip_conntrack ? Denys Fedoryshchenko
2008-03-06 13:51 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-03-08 12:26 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-08 12:33 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-08 14:24 ` Denys Fedoryshchenko [this message]
2008-03-08 14:44 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-03-08 15:18 ` Patrick McHardy
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