Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261494AbVCWPE6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:04:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261617AbVCWPE6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:04:58 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.tiscali.no ([213.142.64.144]:6413 "EHLO smtp-out.tiscali.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261494AbVCWPE4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:04:56 -0500 Subject: Re: forkbombing Linux distributions From: Natanael Copa To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20050322112628.GA18256@roll> <20050322124812.GB18256@roll> <20050322125025.GA9038@roll> <9cde8bff050323025663637241@mail.gmail.com> <1111581459.27969.36.camel@nc> <9cde8bff05032305044f55acf3@mail.gmail.com> <1111586058.27969.72.camel@nc> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:04:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1111590294.27969.114.camel@nc> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 29 On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:43 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >brings down almost all linux distro's while other *nixes survives. > > Let's see if this can be confirmed. open/free/netbsd survives. I guess OSX does too. Gentoo (non-hardened), Red Hat, Mandrake, FC2 are vulnerable. Debian stable survives but they set the default proc limit to 256. Looks like Suse also is not vulerable. (I wonder if the daemons started from booscripts are vulnerable though) Solaris 10 seems to be vulnerable. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/308 I think it would be nice if Linux could be mentioned together with the *bsd's instead of the commercial *nixes next time :) -- Natananael Copa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/