forkbomb attack
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Nov 30 15:46:11 UTC 2007
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:37:48 +0300
"Zhukov Pavel" <gelios at gmail.com> wrote:
> why modern fedora affected by simple forkbomb attack?
As its shipped with defaults that are in keeping with a desktop system,
normally single user which is generally how Fedora is used. If you
configure the various control features it'll behave rather differently.
See /etc/security/limits.conf
Also /etc/sysctl.conf
vm.overcommit_memory = 2
Alan
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