Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26

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Subject: Re: Local DoS in kernel 2.6.26
From: Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:19:01 -0400
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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:33:15 -0500
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:

...

> (:(){:&:;};:) at a shell prompt should peg all your CPUs and run you
> out of process ids.

For more information on fork bombs, including an annotated one closely
resembling Boyd's, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb

Celejar
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