talonz wrote: > Recently i have been using a dialup 56k account to access the net > and have noticed that when my ssh session times out and I am editing > a file in ` ee ' the system goes to 99% cpu usage and stays like > this till the pid is killed. > This is a standard user account (not root/su)
This happens all the time on servers I manage. It's a real pain because it's hard to see the actual load of the machine. We have a dumb hack of a script that kill these off when they happen. > Would a user be able to create a denial of service condition > on the remote system using this bug? Don't think so, unless there's a process getting starved somewhere, in which case the DOS would be basically impossible to prevent. Cheers, Nate _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
