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To: CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>
Cc: "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-16:15.sysarch [REVISED]
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CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl> writes:
> Robert N. M. Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> writes:
> > In general, my strong recommendation is against issuing advisories
> > for local denial-of-service attacks, (..)
> I would prefer to get that information regardless of individual
> preferences.

It's not a matter of individual preference.  During my time as so@ (and
Simon's before me), this was an explicit policy.  The reason is that, as
Robert points out, there are a million ways for a trusted unprivileged
user to cause a DoS, and most of them aren't even bugs.  Some of them
can be mitigated using quotas or resource limits, but far from all.

DES
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