Dangerous defaults... oldest attack still works

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:03:36PM +0200, Andy Pieters wrote:
 > Hi again
 > 
 > Is Fedora Core aware that the oldest attack known to Unix still works?  I mean 
 > why don't they put a default to ulimit instead of unilimted?
 > 
 > Does fork bomb ring a bell?

You're a few months too late. This was beaten to death already.
Check out the list archives.

		Dave