linux_segment_limit_bug.txt

Subject: Linux 2.0.37 segment limit bug To: [email protected] Hello, Linux 2.0.37 released last month introduces the support for more than 1 GB of physical memory on x86 which wasn't supported in earlier 2.0 kernels. It is now possible to increase the limit, at the expense of reducing the...

patch_for_ipc_vuln.txt

Subject: Re: KKIS19990914.004b: ShareDream - shared memory - ipc vulnerability To: [email protected] Attached is a trivial Linux-2.2.12 patch wich adds add a procfs entry for tuning the limit of shared memory allocable. /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax Max number of shared memory pages Attached is...

BSDLinux Kernel 2.3 (BSDOS 4.0 FreeBSD 3.2 NetBSD 1.4) - Shared Memory Denial of Service

BSDLinux Kernel 2.3 BSDOS 4.0 FreeBSD 3.2 NetBSD 1.4 - Shared Memory Denial of Service / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/526/info Operating systems with a shared memory implementation based on or influenced by the 4.4BSD code may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack The problem...

BSD/Linux Kernel 2.3 (BSD/OS 4.0 / FreeBSD 3.2 / NetBSD 1.4) - Shared Memory Denial of Service

/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/526/info Operating systems with a shared memory implementation based on or influenced by the 4.4BSD code may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack The problem exists because you can mmap or shmget as much memory as you'd like bypassing rlimits. Wh...