From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 5 3: 5:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703961518A for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 03:04:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id UAA18183; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 20:04:43 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36DFB9FD.7BD55170@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 20:03:25 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple DOS against 3.x locks box solid References: <99Mar5.141337est.40405@border.alcanet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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