Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:06:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@FreeBSD.org> To: ports@geeksrus.net, schweikh@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/42772: usr.bin/make: patch to stop a fork bomb Message-ID: <200209201706.g8KH675f006010@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: usr.bin/make: patch to stop a fork bomb State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: schweikh State-Changed-When: Fri Sep 20 10:01:16 PDT 2002 State-Changed-Why: I don't like this for various reasons. 1) It does not solve the root cause (ports variables leading to recursions in make) Can this be solved in bsd.port.mk? 2) Fork Bomb DoS attacks should not be handled by hardening all the potential utilities (you can't prevent them in shells etc). They can be addressed by resource limits in login.conf(5), maxproc. 3) The patch uses Hungarian Notation which is as far from BSD style as it gets :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42772 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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