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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:27:58PM +0500, surreal wrote:
> I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local DoS
> which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels.
I guess you are talking about CVE-2008-5300 [1]. What happe
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:27, surreal wrote:
> I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local DoS
> which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels.
After about 15 minutes:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
16799 will 20 0
It may chew up an old computer but a new one won't really do more than
sniffle.
It goes on an endless loop sending short messages to itself which aren't
very long. If you wanted to kill a modern computer with that script
you'd have to set ma=some large number.
It can't kill off a modern mult
surreal wrote:
I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local
DoS which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels.
At that time, I used Fedora Core 4 and a pentium 4 machine with 512 MB
ram. After compiling and running this program on the old machine, it
used to
I just caught hold of a C source code from 2005. This code is a local DoS
which fills up the entire memory on Linux 2.6.N kernels.
At that time, I used Fedora Core 4 and a pentium 4 machine with 512 MB ram.
After compiling and running this program on the old machine, it used to hang
within 40 seco
