On 13/07/07 13:39, Anand Jahagirdar wrote:
> This patch Warns the administrator about the fork bombing attack
> (whenever any user is crossing its process limit). I have used
> +printk(KERN_WARNING "User with uid %u is
> crossing the process limi
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:09:02PM +0530, Anand Jahagirdar wrote:
>Hello All
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>Index: root/Desktop/a1/linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2_FILES/linux-2.6.17/kernel/fork.c
>===
>--- root.orig/Desktop/a1/linux-2.6.17.tar.bz2_FILES/linux-2.6.17/
:
This patch Warns the administrator about the fork bombing attack
(whenever any user is crossing its process limit). I have used
printk_ratelimit function in this patch. This function helps to
prevent flooding of syslog and prints message as per the values set by
root user in following files:-
1) /proc
(not CCing security, since it's not a security bug and it's too late to
verify if they should be on cc. Will do later.)
Anand Jahagirdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch Warns the administrator about the fork bombing attack
> (whenever any user is crossing its proce
Hello All
As per the discussion in the thread with subject as
Patch Related with Fork Bombing Attack on LKML,I have modified my
patch. I request you for the inclusion of my attached patch named
"fork.patch".
Summery of the Patch:
This patch Warns the administrator abou
Anand Jahagirdar wrote:
Hello All
I tried to execute a program which creates 8152 process.(
i=0; while( i<14) i++ fork(); ) with ulimit 8200. This program
created 8152 processes and then stopped and came back to command
prompt. this proves that my machine do have sufficient resources t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I found one more interesting thing related with fork
> bombing attack. i have set following in /etc/security/limits.conf file
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]hard nproc 3000
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard nproc 500
The # i
> output is 8050. when root or any other user changes ulimit by typing
> "ulimit -u value",.ulimit value is changed for that session and not
> permantely. actually ulimit should help to prevent fork bombing attack
> but it wont and fork bombing attack still take down th
s children. Or more
correctly, those children that don't themselves change the value again - the
distinction is crucial in this case.
> actually ulimit should help to prevent fork bombing attack
Right. It *helps* prevent it. But it isn't by itself a total cure.
> but it
Hello All
I found one more interesting thing related with fork
bombing attack. i have set following in /etc/security/limits.conf file
[EMAIL PROTECTED]hard nproc 3000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hard nproc 500
I have tried to execute fork bombing program on the same machine. it
terminal with guest account and this fork bombing attack
killed the box completely and machine needed reboot.
I think if you want resource limiting per _UID_ (and not per _process_
as you did), you should use PAM module pam_limits.so. You can edit
those limits using the file /etc/security/l
on another terminal with guest account and this fork bombing attack
> killed the box completely and machine needed reboot.
Do you know ulimits are a *process* property, not uid property?
That is, if, in some process of a giving user, you set ulimit value,
it does NOT affect other processes of
d not able to fork another single
process when it reaches to 100 processes count.
actual result :- kernel allow me to create another processes without
giving error. due to this i tried to execute same fork bombing program
on another terminal with guest account and this fork bombing attack
k
On Thu, 17 May 2007 20:15:32 +0530, Anand Jahagirdar said:
> Hello All
> I have set per user process limit ( ulimit) for both
> root and guest account as 8000 by using option ulimit -u 8000.this is
> Hard limit. still fork bombing attack killed the box and machine
>
Hello All
I have set per user process limit ( ulimit) for both
root and guest account as 8000 by using option ulimit -u 8000.this is
Hard limit. still fork bombing attack killed the box and machine
needed reboot. will any body please tell me why this is so? i have
tried all this
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:55:53 +0530
"Anand Jahagirdar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> I just want to know whether fork bombing attack still
> exist on the machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and Linux
> Kernel 2.6.x.?
>
>
May be because Mars was in Scorpio?
On 5/17/07, Anand Jahagirdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Sir,
I just want to know whether fork bombing attack still
exist on the machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and Linux
Kernel 2.6.x.?
additional Info : I ha
Dear Sir,
I just want to know whether fork bombing attack still
exist on the machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and Linux
Kernel 2.6.x.?
additional Info : I have set ulimit as 8000 and loged in
as Guest User on machine having Distribution as Fedora Core 6 and
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