Would raising the number of NMBCLUSTERS help? Or would it just postpone
the problem? Solaris/x86 also does not have any problems with the code.
-Kip
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> > Isn't this a huge problem for ordinary users on a system?? I mean
> > there aren't any user restrictions on sockets right? I imagine
> > there will be some sort of follow up on this exploit?
>
> Well, there is a 256k limit per socket of the buffer (I & O), try
> sysctl kern.maxsockbuf and you can limit the number of sockets with
> the maximum number of filedescriptors per process (ulimit -a), but that's
> just not safe enough.
>
> It seems that the kernel doesn't check wether the space it wants to
> allocate still exists or not.
>
> Marc
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