Re: Linux kernels DoSable by file-max limit

From: Paul Starzetz (paulat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 02:38:56 PDT

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    Kurt Seifried wrote:
    
    >>Solution: no temporary solution yet, there should be a global per user
    >>file limit, the reserved file descriptors should be given out under
    >>another uid/euid policy. The NR_RESERVED_FILES limit seems to me to be
    >>really low.
    >>    
    >>
    >
    >Huh. Simply limit users, PAM provides this capability, as do most shells.
    >From: http://seifried.org/lasg/users/
    >  
    >
    Yes, but maybe the point of my original posting was not completely clear 
    to everybody. Just look at the [*] line in the original post. The 
    problem is the policy to give out the reserved file descriptors. 
    Limiting users is a well known issue (to mostly everybody here I think) 
    but sometimes it is not applicable or even not enough to prevent this 
    kind of DoS.
    
    regards,
    
    Paul Starzetz
    



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