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To: StockMan who wrote (40138)11/12/1997 12:51:00 PM
From: Fridrik Skulason  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Re fork/malloc bombs and other ways to crash OSes

>These are not easy to come by. The fork/malloc scenario has undergone >extensive usage.

fork/malloc is well known and anybody with a C compiler and reasonable knowledge of the OS can make such a program in a few minutes. Now, some operating systems have proper resource usage monitoring, but Linux is not one of them, and crashing it in this way is trivial.

>One possible software workaround may be to detect invalid opcodes F0, >in compilers/assemblers.

Sorry, but that won't work - it would be easy to get around that with
self-modifying code.
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