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luser beeing able to kill random root owned procs (linux 2.2.20) ?

From: Lucian Hudin <luci () warp transart ro>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 22:01:31 +0200 (EET)


while running "vi `perl -e 'print "." x 90000000'`" on
a 2.2.20 linux kernel as a normal user, I've noticed:

forsaken:~$ dmesg
VM: killing process snmpd
forsaken:~$ uname -rs
Linux 2.2.20

snmpd was running as root (this machine has 64MBytes of RAM)

Regards,
Luci

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