[11773] in bugtraq
Re: NetBSD 1.4.1 local DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Brown)
Thu Sep 9 04:50:13 1999
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Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 22:15:32 +1200
Reply-To: Alan Brown <alan@MANAWATU.GEN.NZ>
From: Alan Brown <alan@MANAWATU.GEN.NZ>
X-To: "Charles M. Hannum" <root@IHACK.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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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
