Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:39:24 -0500 (EST) | From | rewt <> | Subject | Simple DoS...out of resources? |
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It is very easy to crash a system simply by viewing a large file with editor such as pico. It will eat up all the resources and do some unpredictible things. In my case I viewed a 100mb file as it was reading it, it filled up all the swap space which is 48mb. It killed most of the processes including sendmail, sshd, X, syslog. Does anyone have any idea how can i protect myself against that kind of DoS? My configuration: P100, 48mb ram, 48mb swap running on kernel 2.2.2.
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