Re: NetBSD 1.4.1 local DoS

From: Alan Brown (alanat_private)
Date: Sat Sep 04 1999 - 03:15:32 PDT

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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> Linux is not generally vulnerable to the exploit as posted, because it
> seems to only accept 64512 bytes from the write(2)s, and limit the
> file descriptor table to 256 entries (at least by default)

This is changeable at a kernel level by editing limit.h and the latest
kernel (2.2.12) seems to allow dynamic allocations of per-user FDs.

AB

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