Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 19:11:51 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Local DoS in FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.1.19990901191051.04e80570@granite.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <199909012046.QAA07324@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909012215420.7489-100000@heidi.plazza.it> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011409520.19266-100000@free-bsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909012215420.7489-100000@heidi.plazza.it>
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>We have known for some time that the problem originally described >exists, but developing an acceptable solution has been a challenge. >Now that sockets carry around user credentials, it may perhaps not be >as difficult as it used to be. > >What needs to be done is to impose a per-UID resource limit on the >amount of socket buffer space available. Do you think these changes would be incorporated into the 3.x branch, or strictly 4.x ? ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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