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Subject: Re: grsecurity 2.1.0 release / 5 Linux kernel advisories (fwd)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Gwe, 2005-01-07 at 21:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > the below email seems to be very intersting.
> 
> An unprivileged local user can DoS a Linux box to death with malloc and
> memset, so the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK bug isn't particularly exceptional.  All the
> others require root anyway.

The moxa one is insufficient too.

All in -ac7 just brewing now