Re: Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Serverto a Halt (was: remote DoS in Mozilla 1.0)

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+---------- On Jun 13, Federico Sevilla III said:
> Suggestions on how to work around this on multiple levels would definitely
> be appreciated.

You could start by using basic Unix resource limits: run xfs as a
non-root user and set its data segment limit.  For example:

    ulimit -d 16384
    exec su xfs -c '/usr/bin/X11/xfs -nodaemon'



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