From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 10:54: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA421532F; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:54:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA16057; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:53:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA26248; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:53:41 -0600 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:53:41 -0600 Message-Id: <199907271753.LAA26248@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Achim Patzner Cc: Nate Williams , Julian Elischer , "Brian F. Feldman" , Matthew Dillon , Joe Greco , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: securelevel and ipfw zero In-Reply-To: <19990727194245.L58970@bnc.net> References: <199907271715.LAA25892@mt.sri.com> <19990727194245.L58970@bnc.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > (Another thing I just thought of is that this could cause DoS attacks on > > the system if a user compromised root and then set the limit to a very > > high number.) > > If you have someone going berzerk as "root" on a firewall you're definitely > going to have a completely different set of headaches. Why should someone > start DoS attacks after capturing a firewall? It's like painting the > fingernails before amputating the hand. So it was a bad example. If I had enough brain cells to boil a cup of water for my soup I'd be able to come up with more 'viable' issues where modifying the counters is a bad thing. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message