Re: Memory allocation errors

Ion Badulescu (ionut@moisil.wal.rhno.columbia.edu)
Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:40:50 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> >
> > You made some sense up until here:
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > If memory isn't freed, here's another "denial of services" ...
> >
> > Any DOS attack could just as easily not call 'free'.
>
> I am NOT talking about DOS.

Umm... DOS = Denial Of Service...

Anyway, the point was clear: if you want a denial-of-service attack, you
can as well not free the memory at all.

Ionut

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