[kernel-sec-discuss] r738 - active

Dann Frazier dannf at alioth.debian.org
Sun Apr 8 22:23:06 UTC 2007


Author: dannf
Date: 2007-04-08 22:23:06 +0000 (Sun, 08 Apr 2007)
New Revision: 738

Modified:
   active/CVE-2006-7051
Log:
Debian should probably "fix" this by suggesting a limit (ulimit -i) on the number of pending signals

Modified: active/CVE-2006-7051
===================================================================
--- active/CVE-2006-7051	2007-04-08 22:21:17 UTC (rev 737)
+++ active/CVE-2006-7051	2007-04-08 22:23:06 UTC (rev 738)
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
  possibly bypass memory limits or cause other processes to be killed by
  creating a large number of posix timers, which are allocated in kernel
  memory but are not treated as part of the process' memory.
+ .
+ dannf> Debian should probably "fix" this by suggesting a limit (ulimit -i)
+        on the number of pending signals
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