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Re: tmpwatch: local DoS : fork()bomb as root
From: stanislav shalunov <shalunov () INTERNET2 EDU>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 20:44:04 -0400
zenith parsec <zenith_parsec () THE-ASTRONAUT COM> writes:
Any user with write access to /tmp or /var/tmp can cause redhat 6.1 (and others runnng tmpwatch from cron) to stop responding, and possibly requre a hard reboot.
The is one of the kinds of vulnerabilities that stmpclean has been designed to avoid. ftp://ftp.mccme.ru/users/shalunov/stmpclean-0.1.tar.gz -- Stanislav Shalunov Internet2 "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it." -- Mark Twain
Current thread:
- tmpwatch: local DoS : fork()bomb as root zenith parsec (Sep 12)
- Re: tmpwatch: local DoS : fork()bomb as root stanislav shalunov (Sep 12)
- Re: tmpwatch: local DoS : fork()bomb as root Lukasz Trabinski (Sep 12)