Hello, I'm an intermediate Linux user. I think I discovered a horrifying denial of service attack that can be launched by a single 'ls'. -w,--width=COLS is the screen width parameter... and it doesn't check the feasability of a giant terminal. What I mean is, it will try to allocate enough memory in order to display on say, a 500,000 column terminal. 'ls -w 500000' ate all my memory, I guess the kernel sent a kill -7 to all of my processes, and this totally froze my system for a good while. I wrote a quick C program to launch this attack inside a forkbomb. It was TERRIBLE! This is way too much power for non-root, so, a fix is in order, no? -Michael Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _____________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
