linux-kernel - Re: Patch related with Fork Bombing Atack

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:01:21 +0100
From:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>,
	Anand Jahagirdar <anandjigar@...il.com>, security@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch related with Fork Bombing Atack

On 1 Jun 2007, Jens Axboe told this:
> I think Anand is assuming that because syslog may coalesce identical
> messages into "repeated foo times" in the messages file, that it's not a
> dos. That is of course wrong.

Not all syslog daemons do that, anyway. (syslog-ng doesn't, for one.)

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