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Re: NetBSD 1.4.1 local DoS
From: alan () MANAWATU GEN NZ (Alan Brown)
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 22:15:32 +1200

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Charles M. Hannum wrote:


Linux is not generally vulnerable to the exploit as posted, because it
seems to only accept 64512 bytes from the write(2)s, and limit the
file descriptor table to 256 entries (at least by default)


This is changeable at a kernel level by editing limit.h and the latest
kernel (2.2.12) seems to allow dynamic allocations of per-user FDs.

AB

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