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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2000 22:36:31 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Danny Wong <danny@pentalpha.com.hk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: process eat up all me process time
Message-ID:  <20000530223631.I9283@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <01bb01bfcab9$191f37a0$a800000a@001.mis.penatlpha.com.hk>; from danny@pentalpha.com.hk on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:31:32PM %2B0800
References:  <01bb01bfcab9$191f37a0$a800000a@001.mis.penatlpha.com.hk>

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* Danny Wong <danny@pentalpha.com.hk> [000530 21:35] wrote:
> Hi!
> I need to login some remote site and do some editing on the configure file.
> As the connection is not very stable, sometime I lose the connect while
> doing file editing. A few days after, I login again and find that about 98%
> of CPU time is occupied by 'ee' - process running while lose connect a few
> days ago. Also the connect supposed to be dead are still exist and running,
> e.g csh, ee ....
> I am running on FreeBSD 3.2 - stable.

I'm pretty sure a fix was put in after for 3-stable, i'd upgrade
if possible.

> Can it be used to created a DoS attack?

A pretty sad one maybe. :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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