Re: NetBSD 1.4.1 local DoS

[alan () MANAWATU GEN NZ (Alan Brown)]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> Linux is not generally vulnerable to the exploit as posted, because it
> seems to only accept 64512 bytes from the write(2)s, and limit the
> file descriptor table to 256 entries (at least by default)

This is changeable at a kernel level by editing limit.h and the latest
kernel (2.2.12) seems to allow dynamic allocations of per-user FDs.

AB