[arch-dev-public] Fwd: limits.conf and fork bombing

[Dave Reisner]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 02:23:34PM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
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> Betreff: 	limits.conf and fork bombing
> Datum: 	Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:15:26 +0200
> Von: 	M0Rf30 <morf3089 at gmail.com>
> An: 	tpowa at archlinux.org
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> Could you insert a string into /etc/security/limits.conf to prevent a
> fork bombing attack?
> An example:
> *                hard    nproc          300
> Thanks
> Best Regards
> Gianluca Boiano
> 

Yeah, we've seen this before...

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25690

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