[Centos] Re: centos] Re: centos] warning: fork bomb

[herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Deim ?goston wrote:

>>> and it bring down my box to its knees.
>> 
>> It looks like a longstanding stupid local user geek trick -- where is the 
>> news?  A talented local user is a BOFH's worst nightmare and favorite 
>> victim.
>
> And don't forget you can ulimit a user. And yes, a real local user is a real

I think the point of the upstream exploit code is that some 
shipped kernel configurations did not loop this through the 
ulimit checks.

- Russ Herrold