Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] security/brute: Mitigate a brute force attack

2021-03-12 Thread John Wood
Hi, On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 09:32:47PM +0100, peter enderborg wrote: > On 2/27/21 4:30 PM, John Wood wrote: > > In order to mitigate a brute force attack all the offending tasks involved > > in the attack must be killed. In other words, it is necessary to kill all > > the tasks that share the fork

Re: [PATCH v5 5/8] security/brute: Mitigate a brute force attack

2021-03-11 Thread peter enderborg
On 2/27/21 4:30 PM, John Wood wrote: > In order to mitigate a brute force attack all the offending tasks involved > in the attack must be killed. In other words, it is necessary to kill all > the tasks that share the fork and/or exec statistical data related to the > attack. Moreover, if the attack

[PATCH v5 5/8] security/brute: Mitigate a brute force attack

2021-02-27 Thread John Wood
In order to mitigate a brute force attack all the offending tasks involved in the attack must be killed. In other words, it is necessary to kill all the tasks that share the fork and/or exec statistical data related to the attack. Moreover, if the attack happens through the fork system call, the pr