Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:44:06 +1300
From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, laszlo.danielisz@gmail.com
Subject: Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:
Message-ID: <20071023004406.GD17142@osiris.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20071022164418.GA864@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net>
References: <123275.56819.qm@web30812.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20071022164418.GA864@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net>
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:44:18PM +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote:
> On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, 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?
>
> Wow,, my machine just crashed :-/
> Does in this work on other OS's as well (ie. GNU/Linux)? Or just
> (Free?)BSD? I really don't feel like crashing another machine right
> now...
>
> Only works in sh, not in csh.
>
> Anyway, this seems to be security/stability issue, maybe a PR is in
> order?
More likely something's wrong with your system? I tried out the fork
bomb on my box, and while it crawled for a while, it came back out
fine. Running 6-STABLE.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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Experience is a hard teacher
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