Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PTY DOS vulnerability? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 30 Jun 2003 22:36:34 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2003-06-30 at 22:31, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > That is true, though, of course. Stupid me not to think about > that. However, that means that an administrator who could find > himself being under such an attack might not think about it > either. Also, from the outside, the ssh client just does > nothing, making it look as if the server is unresponsive. Of > course, the exact error is logged to the server's syslog, but if > you can't view it, then you won't know about it. > > So all in all, do you think I should implement a per-user > resource limit on PTYs?
There are a whole collection of things that would benefit from that kind of management - go for it but make it possible to add other stuff too
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