From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 11 14:44:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11112 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:44:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10824; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:43:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01202; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808112141.OAA01202@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group cc: Tom , Stefan Bethke , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huge Bug in FreeBSD not fixed? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:21:28 PDT." <199808112121.OAA06041@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:41:45 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Actually, if you limit the number of processes per user, you can almost > > completely prevent it from happening (at least for regular users anyhow). > > Has anyone tested this to determine where the break point might be? This is a feature of the exploit. Others exist which aren't subject to the constraints that you're encountering here. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message