From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 30 22:36:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1461237B655; Tue, 30 May 2000 22:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4V5aVY16924; Tue, 30 May 2000 22:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:36:31 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Danny Wong Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: process eat up all me process time Message-ID: <20000530223631.I9283@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <01bb01bfcab9$191f37a0$a800000a@001.mis.penatlpha.com.hk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <01bb01bfcab9$191f37a0$a800000a@001.mis.penatlpha.com.hk>; from danny@pentalpha.com.hk on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:31:32PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Danny Wong [000530 21:35] wrote: > Hi! > I need to login some remote site and do some editing on the configure file. > As the connection is not very stable, sometime I lose the connect while > doing file editing. A few days after, I login again and find that about 98% > of CPU time is occupied by 'ee' - process running while lose connect a few > days ago. Also the connect supposed to be dead are still exist and running, > e.g csh, ee .... > I am running on FreeBSD 3.2 - stable. I'm pretty sure a fix was put in after for 3-stable, i'd upgrade if possible. > Can it be used to created a DoS attack? A pretty sad one maybe. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message