Bugtraq mailing list archives
fork()
From: aleipold () clark net (Alex Leipold)
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 10:45:37 -0500
O'm new to the list, so Im not sure if this has been covered, but someone can crash any system with a few lines of code. (tested on UNIX, LINUX) main() { int x; while(x=0;x<1000000;x++) { system("uptime"); fork(); } } Gcc it, run it and whatever system your on will crash. Is their any way to stop users from doing this? I.e. restricting number of process that can run?
Current thread:
- Cracked: WINDOWS.PWL Michael S. Fischer (Dec 05)
- Another tmpfs bug in SunOS 4 Arfst Ludwig (Dec 02)
- Re: Another tmpfs bug in SunOS 4 Pete Shipley (Dec 07)
- little whole on Suns concerning /dev/kbd Arfst Ludwig (Dec 02)
- Re: little whole on Suns concerning /dev/kbd Pete Shipley (Dec 07)
- Re: Cracked: WINDOWS.PWL [most services accessed by any version Rich Graves (Dec 05)
- fork() Alex Leipold (Dec 10)
- Re: fork() Scott Barman (Dec 11)
- Re: fork() Tom Jones (Dec 12)
- SECURITY: Announcing Splitvt 1.6.3 Sam Lantinga (Dec 13)
- Re: SECURITY: Announcing Splitvt 1.6.3 Alex Leipold (Dec 14)
- Re: fork() Scott Barman (Dec 11)
- Re: fork() JaDe (Dec 11)
- Re: fork() Nathan Lawson (Dec 11)
- Another tmpfs bug in SunOS 4 Arfst Ludwig (Dec 02)