Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:08:50 +1300
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: Danielisz Laszlo <laszlo_danielisz@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:
Message-ID: <20071022180850.GA14267@osiris.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <123275.56819.qm@web30812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <123275.56819.qm@web30812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:10:02PM -0700, Danielisz Laszlo wrote:
> Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine.
> I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this?
That's just a fork bomb. Try looking at tuning(7) and login.conf(5) to
reduce the maxproc limit for users.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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