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RealtimeKit and the audio problem

RealtimeKit and the audio problem

Posted Sep 28, 2009 5:31 UTC (Mon) by naptastic (subscriber, #60139)
In reply to: RealtimeKit and the audio problem by jwoithe
Parent article: RealtimeKit and the audio problem

Has anyone ever actually been attacked by a "busy fork bomb"? Where do they come from? How do they get started? I see three scenarios:

1. Malicious software exploits some other vulnerability first, in which case rtkit or PAM limits are unlikely to do any good anyway.

2. A naive user clicks a link or opens an email with malicious code. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that neither Firefox nor Thunderbird are usually run with real-time permissions?

3. A user runs malicious code they crafted themselves. It should go without saying that in this instance, real-time priority inheritance is the very least of the administrator's worries.


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RealtimeKit and the audio problem

Posted Oct 1, 2009 21:16 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I've had 3) before. 'Crafted' was perhaps a bad word for something with a
bug that size in it, though.

(Mind you, it would have been every bit as devastating if it hadn't been
realtime: it *is* still a fork bomb...)

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