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To: Fridrik Skulason who wrote (40134)11/12/1997 12:45:00 PM
From: StockMan  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Fridrik,
Re -- the easiest way for a non-privileged program would probably be a fork/malloc bomb.

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

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

Stockman



To: Fridrik Skulason who wrote (40134)11/12/1997 9:57:00 PM
From: Gary Ng  Respond to of 186894
 
Fridrik, Re: fork/malloc bomb

Ah, I forgot this one. You are right.

Gary


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