Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:59:13 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Michael A. Dickerson" <mikey@singingtree.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple vendors FTP denial of service (fwd) Message-ID: <20010315215913.A70990@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <004b01c0ada9$99f7b540$db9497cf@singingtree.com>; from mikey@singingtree.com on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:42:29PM -0800 References: <98righ$100l$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <004b01c0ada9$99f7b540$db9497cf@singingtree.com>
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--a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:42:29PM -0800, Michael A. Dickerson wrote: > > 4.1 from Aug 10th is hurt by it. > > > > ---Mike > > >=20 > So is 4.3-beta (otherwise known as 4-stable) from March 8. ftpd uses 100% > cpu and memory use grows until the kernel runs out of swap space and star= ts > killing processes. This was an ftp connection with a regular username and > password, in an average home directory. I'm pretty sure (but haven't tested) that resource limits will prevent this problem. Your ftpd shouldn't be using large amount of memory under normal operating procedures, so you can set those to reasonable values and not suffer any ill effects. Kris --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6sauwWry0BWjoQKURAgE4AKCnmhjKbrNZCIMikQJWUftK81880ACeMt5a pb6xBdAHKw1FylymJOF7y3k= =YHjb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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