Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 20:03:25 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple DOS against 3.x locks box solid Message-ID: <36DFB9FD.7BD55170@newsguy.com> References: <99Mar5.141337est.40405@border.alcanet.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > > Another interim solution would be to `fix' GNU grep so it doesn't > attempt to read() into mmap()'d space. (Having not looked at the > code, I don't know how difficult this would be). Pretend the DoS attack does not exist? :-) I'd hate to make such a grave problem less of a nuisance, being so serious. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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