Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: PTY DOS vulnerability? | Date | 2 Jul 2003 18:52:21 -0700 |
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Followup to: <03070220143600.04348@tabby> By author: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Isn't this something a improved sshd could do? I.e. if the > > connection using up the last (or one of the last) pty's logs > > in as non-root - just kill it. > > and how is it to determine that it is the last? > try two and die if the second fails??? > at least one system just creates more ptys... >
Viro's working on it... but as someone else pointed out, "ssh root@machine bash -i" works great without any ptys. You don't have all features, but enough to nuke whatever it is that's eating them all.
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