Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:38:51 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: Patch related with Fork Bombing Atack |
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Anand Jahagirdar wrote:
> when they try to flood the syslog using fork bombing attack, their > messge will be printed only once in syslog and it will show how many > times it has repeated. due to this he will not able to flood the > syslog.and i am using only one single variable in my printk messge so it > is quite not possible to flood the syslog.
Your argument is flawed - if the kernel provides more than one possibility to flood the syslogd, the is free to invoke the events interleaved. This trivially prevents syslogd from grouping identical reports together.
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