Dangerous defaults... oldest attack still works

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:03, Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi again
> 
> Is Fedora Core aware that the oldest attack known to Unix still works?  I mean 
> why don't they put a default to ulimit instead of unilimted?
> 
> Does fork bomb ring a bell?
> 
> Andy

This item was discussed extensively a few weeks ago....

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