Another old security problem
Another old security problem
Posted Sep 11, 2010 14:01 UTC (Sat) by spender (guest, #23067)In reply to: Another old security problem by rilder
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I'm not sure you understand the meaning of 'exploit' or the difference between soft and hard limits.
-Brad
Posted Sep 15, 2010 9:10 UTC (Wed)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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That distros generally impose soft limits instead (for no particularly obvious reason in the case of stack size) is no barrier to imposing a hard limit yourself.
Another old security problem
Rilder made a perfectly good point: applications do not generally need vast stacks (not even Emacs!). Thus it is reasonable to impose a hard limit.