[25759] in bugtraq
Re: Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server to
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Jun 13 14:53:52 2002
To: jijo@free.net.ph (Federico Sevilla III)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 06:39:35 +0100 (BST)
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com (BugTraq Mailing List),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206130908550.985-100000@kalabaw> from "Federico Sevilla III" at Jun 13, 2002 09:44:33 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> check to prevent such large sizes from crashing X and/or the X Font
> Server, I'm alarmed by (1) the way the X font server allows itself to be
> crashed like this, and (2) the way the entire Linux kernel seems to have
> been unable to handle the situation. While having a central company or
So turn on the features to conrol it. Set rlimits on the xfs server and
enable non overcommit (-ac kernel)
Alan
