Messages in this thread | | | From | Christian Bornträger <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory | Date | Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:57:04 +0100 |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > Would it hard to do some memory allocation statistics, so if some > > process at one point (as rsync did) goes crazy eating all memory, that > > would be detected? > > No. What I doubt however is whether it would be worth it, > since most machines never run OOM.
Well, I think could be worth in terms of security, because a local user could use a bad memory-eating program to produce an Denial of Service of other processes.
Unfortunately detecting a program, written to cause harm is harder than detecting a crazy program.
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