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Date:      Sat, 4 Mar 2000 11:00:55 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        Jonathan Fortin <jonf@revelex.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: work around for local DoS ? (kern 17152)
Message-ID:  <20000304110055.B14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000304122608.03c1cb08@mail.sentex.net>; from mike@sentex.net on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 12:27:16PM -0500
References:  <4.2.2.20000304114458.03c48b48@mail.sentex.net> <Pine.BSO.4.21.0003041221350.14600-100000@revelex.com> <4.2.2.20000304122608.03c1cb08@mail.sentex.net>

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* Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> [000304 10:01] wrote:
> At 12:21 PM 3/4/2000 -0500, Jonathan Fortin wrote:
> >ulimit
> 
> In what way? The bug does not appear to be a resource issue

patch your kernel to make all aio calls return ENOSYS.  If it hasn't
been backported in a bit I think i'll take a look at having it disabled
in -stable by default.

-Alfred


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