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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:08:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "L. Sassaman" <rabbi@quickie.net>
To:        FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve <geniusj@free-bsd.org>
Cc:        Jeff Wheat <jeff@cetlink.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FW: Local DoS in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909011706500.13732-100000@thetis.deor.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011149020.18938-100000@free-bsd.org>

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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve wrote:

> If you have public access users, you should have login accounting in the
> first place.. and yes, it does stop it :).. I verified this on a 3.2 box
> with my login accounting setup..

Okay, tweak the login.conf and you stop users from issuing the attack from
the shell. But what about someone who builds the program and uploads it
into a cgi-bin? Are we just to stop allowing cgi's to be run if they
require higher resource limits?



L. Sassaman                         

System Administrator                | "Even the most primitive society has
Technology Consultant               |  an innate respect for the insane."   
icq.. 10735603                      |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi |                    --Mickey Rourke




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