| Summary: | Basic gentoo install is not protected agains fork bombs | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Eero Volotinen <eero> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | critical | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
you should take a look at: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85656 |
On basic gentoo-system this takes system down on normal user: run as normal user: :(){ :|:& };: /etc/security/limits.conf should have some values for @user groups, so that users cannot crash/hang machine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.