Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 14:04:28 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve <geniusj@free-bsd.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Local DoS in FreeBSD Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990901140428.01f197b0@staff.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011149020.18938-100000@free-bsd.org> References: <XFMail.990901123306.jeff@cetlink.net>
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At 11:49 AM 9/1/99 -0600, FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve wrote: >If you have public access users, you should have login accounting in the >first place.. and yes, it does stop it :).. I verified this on a 3.2 box >with my login accounting setup.. How does accounting stop it ? Or do you mean it just discourages users from doing it ? How much overhead does accounting add to the system ? Also, limiting the amount of file descriptors can prevent it, as the 'bug' is essentially a resource starving issue (e.g. fork bomb) ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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