From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Anand Jahagirdar" <anandjigar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fork bombing Attack
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:07:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070517100703.01577558@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25ae38200705170025m23fe8ea9s81515ec8d1a0a137@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:55:53 +0530
"Anand Jahagirdar" <anandjigar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> I just want to know whether fork bombing attack still
> exist on the machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and Linux
> Kernel 2.6.x.?
>
> additional Info : I have set ulimit as 8000 and loged in
> as Guest User on machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and
> Linux kernel 2.6.18. simple fork bombing program while(1) fork();
> killed the box and machine needed reboot. will any body please tell me
> why fork bombing attack killed the box even after setting ulimit as
> 8000?
Did you set a sensible per user process limit and what swap/memory setup
do you have. If you have sensible per user process limits and zero
overcommit setup you shouldn't be able to do anything beyond soak up a
lot of CPU time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 7:25 Fork bombing Attack Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-17 7:39 ` Marat Buharov
2007-05-17 9:07 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-05-17 14:45 Fork Bombing Attack Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-17 15:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-18 11:13 ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-18 13:07 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-05-18 13:19 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-05-18 17:22 ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-18 17:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-18 21:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-18 22:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-05-22 21:52 ` Mark Lord
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