Vulnerability Development: Re: Memory leak in Solaris 2.7 kernel?

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM>]

Doc Savage wrote:
> Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but this is just a shell
> expansion that gets a little carried away.
>
> ls ../* expands to parent directory, all files
> ls ../*/../* expands to parent directory, all files, parent directory, all
> files....nice little loop if the parent directory has a child (whihc it
> obviously does since we're in one).
It is by all indications a memory exhaustion attack.  I'm going to kill
off this thread unless someone finds something more pertinant than
the fact that root can use lots of ram.

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