Re: Patch related with Fork Bombing Atack

[Jiri Kosina]

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.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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