Re: DoS using tmpfs

2001-06-12 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Pavel, On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > It appears that a system with tmpfs mounted with the default (!!!) > parameters can be used by ordinary users to make the system > non-functional. ... > 1) tmpfs, as opposed to ramfs doesn't limit the usage by >default. It's no

DoS using tmpfs

2001-06-08 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! It appears that a system with tmpfs mounted with the default (!!!) parameters can be used by ordinary users to make the system non-functional. Let me tell you the whole story. I don't know what is wrong here and what is not, but the end result is a security hole. The kernel version is 2.