A Linux/x86_64 DoS vulnerability

Posted Feb 11, 2010 13:36 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981)
In reply to: The x86_64 DOS hole by jimparis
Parent article: The x86_64 DOS hole

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)