Re: [patch] af_unix fix for a panic a DoS and a memory leak [Re:

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 23:36:24 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:

>Actually, there were no DoS different of normal "too may open files"

Did you really tried the exploit? I connect to the server (that is
sleeping) and _then_ I always close the socket, so the file descriptor
gets released, but the newsk in CONNECTING state is still allocated
awating for a server action. The DoS is that there's no limit in the
number of these peer-newsk. Do you see my point?

Andrea Arcangeli

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