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Re: slapper countermeasures



KevinL <darius@obsidian.com.au> writes:

> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 06:05, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> > "killall .bugtraq" would be suitable as well, and it would "destroy" 
> > every other instance of the program that is running currently. Even if 
> > detecting the current PPID does not work for whatever reason.
> *chuckle*

> Solaris is vulnerable to this bug?  Solaris "killall" kills _everything_
> - not just the named process.

Not everything - just any process with an open filedescriptor.

> KJL
> (Who knows this from bitter experience...)

Me, too. Brought down one of our production servers hard... 

Learned that lesson! ;-)

Regards, Ulli

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