The x86_64 DOS hole
The x86_64 DOS hole
Posted Feb 4, 2010 22:32 UTC (Thu) by jimparis (guest, #38647)Parent article: The x86_64 DOS hole
Is there a temporary workaround? Disable 32-bit mode? Disable core-dumps?
Posted Feb 11, 2010 13:36 UTC (Thu)
by gvy (guest, #11981)
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A Linux/x86_64 DoS vulnerability
Yup, and some distros have done that by default long ago:
http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=startup.gi...
(I've been using kernel.core_pattern = /dev/null for a bit longer and it happened to be useful more than once)