Hi!
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:15:54AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> a side note: JACK, when run in RT mode, launches its own maximal
> priority thread to perform exactly this function. all other RT threads
> run at lower priorities. i believe that it is not possible to use JACK
> to perform DOS attacks like this unless the client modifies its
> scheduling priority itself.
As far as I understood this, you have a client thread with raised priority
that gets monitored. However, couldn't an attacker fork() in this thread,
to transport priviledges to another (unrelated) process, and then kill -9
all other processes with priviledges, and then do his DOS attack?
Cu... Stefan
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