Ubuntu

Ubuntu Linux Completely Vulnerable to Fork Bomb

Bug #14869 reported by Lukas Sabota
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Bug Description

Ubuntu Linux is completely vulnerable to a simple fork bomb by default. This is
a moderate security risk on a default install, but this is a severe security
risk when remove logins are enabled through ssh. This is the fork bomb that
will bring down any ubuntu box:
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Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318) wrote :

This is a severe security vulnerability that should be fixed before the hoary
release.

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Sean D. Quinn (seandq) wrote :

I second that, Lucas. This security hole needs to be filled up before some
vicious hacker gets to Ubuntu users' computers.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14505.

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