Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:10:31 +0200 (SAST) From: Justin Stanford <jus@security.za.net> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, FreeBSD-SECURITY <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Local FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DoS Vulnerability (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005310810050.373-100000@Athena.za.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005310204330.6246-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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Take a look at the sample login.conf entry on http://www.security.za.net (News Section) - this has proven to prevent the DoS from working. Regards, jus -- Justin Stanford 082 7402741 jus@security.za.net www.security.za.net IT Security and Solutions On Wed, 31 May 2000, Matt Heckaman wrote: > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > [...] > : ITYM ``see `man setrlimit' with special attention to RLIMIT_SBSIZE''. > : `man limit' doesn't provide any useful information at all. > > Yes, I see what you mean and understand RLIMIT_SBSIZE, but just how is > that set on a machine wide-all-users scale? From what I can tell from > login.conf(5) there's no resource for it. > > RESOURCE LIMITS > Name Type Notes Description > cputime time CPU usage limit. > filesize size Maximum file size limit. > datasize size Maximum data size limit. > stacksize size Maximum stack size limit. > coredumpsize size Maximum coredump size limit. > memoryuse size Maximum of core memory use size > limit. > memorylocked size Maximum locked in core memory size > limit. > maxproc number Maximum number of processes. > openfiles number Maximum number of open files per > process. > ... > > Is the manual page out of date and it's there, or is it not? > > : -GAWollman > > Regards, > Matt Heckaman > matt@arpa.mail.net > http://www.lucida.qc.ca > ------------ Output from pgp ------------ > Opening file "/home/jus/pgp4pine.tmp" type text. > Signature by unknown keyid: 0xC0355390 > Opening file "/dev/null" type text. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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