Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.18] Security: Process-Killer if machine get's out of memory | Date | Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:03:54 +0100 |
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Christian Borntr ger <linux-kernel@borntraeger.net> wrote: >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.
man setrlimit
>Unfortunately detecting a program, written to cause harm is harder than >detecting a crazy program.
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