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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706011032490.29896@twin.jikos.cz>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:38:51 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To: Anand Jahagirdar <anandjigar@...il.com>
cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, security@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch related with Fork Bombing Atack
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Anand Jahagirdar wrote:
> when they try to flood the syslog using fork bombing attack, their
> messge will be printed only once in syslog and it will show how many
> times it has repeated. due to this he will not able to flood the
> syslog.and i am using only one single variable in my printk messge so it
> is quite not possible to flood the syslog.
Your argument is flawed - if the kernel provides more than one possibility
to flood the syslogd, the is free to invoke the events interleaved. This
trivially prevents syslogd from grouping identical reports together.
--
Jiri Kosina
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