[25769] in bugtraq
Re: Very large font size crashing X Font Server and Grounding Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Mayoff)
Thu Jun 13 19:23:02 2002
Date: 13 Jun 2002 14:02:16 -0500
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From: "Rob Mayoff" <mayoff@dqd.com>
To: "Federico Sevilla III" <jijo@free.net.ph>
Cc: "BugTraq Mailing List" <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
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+---------- On Jun 13, Federico Sevilla III said:
> Suggestions on how to work around this on multiple levels would definitely
> be appreciated.
You could start by using basic Unix resource limits: run xfs as a
non-root user and set its data segment limit. For example:
ulimit -d 16384
exec su xfs -c '/usr/bin/X11/xfs -nodaemon'
