From owner-freebsd-security Sun Sep 5 11:43:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63D414E51; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 11:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA28577; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:42:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:42:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199909051842.OAA28577@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Garrett Wollman , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FW: Local DoS in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: References: <199909050312.XAA26309@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > Err... But some users need lots of of file descriptors and/or processes. > That would still leave this hole open. Don't give those resources to untrusted users. (And while you're at it, how about fixing the code that causes a panic here rather than failing gracefully?) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message