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Critical Vulnerabilities in Samba

Posted May 17, 2007 5:09 UTC (Thu) by thedevil (subscriber, #32913)
In reply to: Critical Vulnerabilities in Samba by jwb
Parent article: Critical Vulnerabilities in Samba

>>I've always heard that memory allocations never fail on Linux<<

They can if you have this in /etc/sysctl.conf:
vm.overcommit_memory=2

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