Re: possible gnome-terminal/vte DoS?
"Barry K. Nathan" <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:36:50PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> As an example to illustrate....
>
> Save all important data open on your machine, and at a bash
> prompt type:
>
> :(){ :|:&};:
That caused a more intense, but shorter-lived, slowdown when I tried it
(compared to the large font size in gnome-terminal).
Yes, I understand that there are other ways to cause attacks. Which
reminds me, is there any kind of "resource limits for dummies"
redhat-config-* tool? If not, I think something like that would be nice
for 8.1.
-Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]>