On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:27:13AM +1000, talonz wrote: > Recently i have been using a dialup 56k account to access the net > and have noticed that when my ssh session times out and I am editing > a file in ` ee ' the system goes to 99% cpu usage and stays like > this till the pid is killed. > This is a standard user account (not root/su) > > Would a user be able to create a denial of service condition > on the remote system using this bug?
No more then they could with the ablity to run any other program that loops. > (sorry if this is posted to the incorrect list) > > Details: > > System - FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p5 > > ee using 99% cpu after user session terminates abnormaly > PID reported by top. > > The output from ps looks like this > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps aux| grep 70464 > someuser 70464 93.5 0.1 1920 1372 p1- R 7:09PM 687:07.27 ee file I can't seem to trigger this bug on a 7.0 machine either by killing the client or using tcpdrop to kill the tcp session. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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