From owner-freebsd-security Sat Mar 4 14:42:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F83037B6FA for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 14:42:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA24133; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:42:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA24439; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:42:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000304173354.03cbf5d8@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 17:40:57 -0500 To: Alfred Perlstein From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: work around for local DoS ? (kern 17152) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG 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> <4.2.2.20000304122608.03c1cb08@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:00 AM 3/4/2000 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* Mike Tancsa [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message