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Re: [Frank DENIS -Jedi/Sector One- <j@EIDER.NET>] Denial of service (qmail-smtpd)



John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:

> While implementing my own mailer, I went over the qmail source code
> and noticed that qmail is susceptible to a very trivial denial of
> service attack. By sending SMTP commands of unlimited length, an
> attacker can make the machine run out of memory, thus rendering it
> completely unusable.

Right, I saw somewhere else (can't recall where) that someone's
response to this problem was "that's what ulimits are for".  Not that
I'm advocating that as the "right" solution.

I can't recall if the person responding was anyone official...

-- 
Rob


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