Re: possible su local D.o.S

["Emre Yildirim" <emre () asper org>]

> On my RH 7.2 I tried this :
>
> [hvc@condor hvc] $ su `perl -e 'print "A" x 100000000'`

I get something rather different

% su `perl -e 'print "A" x 100000000'`
zsh: fatal error: out of memory

After 5 seconds the shell just dies, I get a connection closed by remote host
(this is when I ssh into the box).  The system still functions though. 
After Ilog back in, the command is not in .zsh_history for some reason and I can't
recall it pushing the up arrow.


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