Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763288AbXEQH0H (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 03:26:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754394AbXEQHZ5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 03:25:57 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.183]:40275 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754537AbXEQHZ4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 03:25:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=bEl+6vZhgjtXWeqKHJ2Jq+k69FHMn009YzWOMP9IVWkJHT2tmVSLSlYSvg3eV3y6EtWB04resVVBGjb/OZymfQw2axlpO+HoiA1bN0XWO/DQc9CkmMQEqDyju5UfNzgxoMHdBZqJCELDjbVYY+hLQKhvDPeyo566eArhRkhiHFc= Message-ID: <25ae38200705170025m23fe8ea9s81515ec8d1a0a137@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:55:53 +0530 From: "Anand Jahagirdar" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Fork bombing Attack MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 19 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? Regards Anand - 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/