From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PTY DOS vulnerability?
Date: 30 Jun 2003 22:36:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1057008994.17589.40.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306302331.38071.fredrik@dolda2000.cjb.net>
On Llu, 2003-06-30 at 22:31, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> That is true, though, of course. Stupid me not to think about
> that. However, that means that an administrator who could find
> himself being under such an attack might not think about it
> either. Also, from the outside, the ssh client just does
> nothing, making it look as if the server is unresponsive. Of
> course, the exact error is logged to the server's syslog, but if
> you can't view it, then you won't know about it.
>
> So all in all, do you think I should implement a per-user
> resource limit on PTYs?
There are a whole collection of things that would benefit from that kind
of management - go for it but make it possible to add other stuff too
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-30 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-30 14:18 PTY DOS vulnerability? Fredrik Tolf
2003-06-30 17:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-30 21:31 ` Fredrik Tolf
2003-06-30 21:36 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-01 12:15 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-01 13:41 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-01 6:22 ` Oleg Drokin
2003-07-01 11:57 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-01 19:53 ` Helge Hafting
2003-07-02 6:42 ` Paul Rolland
2003-07-03 1:14 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-03 1:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-08 23:11 Clayton Weaver
2003-07-09 10:08 ` Svein Ove Aas
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