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Date:      Sat, 04 Mar 2000 17:40:57 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: work around for local DoS ? (kern 17152)
Message-ID:  <4.2.2.20000304173354.03cbf5d8@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000304110055.B14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
References:  <4.2.2.20000304122608.03c1cb08@mail.sentex.net> <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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At 11:00 AM 3/4/2000 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>* 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.

Thanks.  Is there a page somewhere that tells how to do this ?  I had a 
look through the archives and didnt see any reference to this, other then
http://x26.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=588743685&CONTEXT=952209393.1125 
318658&hitnum=13
and that is for CURRENT only it seems.

         ---Mike



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