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Re: Crash any Debian Box

Tom Gallagher writes:
> I made a user called test. I cp the fork binary to his dir and chown/chgrp
> the file to him.  I set the limits for the user 'test'.  I run the binary
> as 'test' while I was logged in as root on another terminal.  Once the

And you log in as user test or do you su there? Also (I know you did this,
but it is a possibility) make sure user test's login shell is really
lshell protected, that it looks like /bin/lshells/sh.

> fork began, typing ps -aux as root returned a segmentation fault.

This should give a 'fork failed' message from the shell. Not a seg fault.
This looks more like a memory problem. What happens if you remove all these
mallocs from the forkbomb?

> Interestingly, 'test' could not run anymore processes (b/c of the limit)
> so test got no segmentation fault.  Noone can login or do anthing while
> fork is running.  However, 'test' can send 'kill -9 -1' to end the
> forkbomb.  Very strange.

There are two more things you could do to bring some more light into it:
1) Run watchdog. Even if you don't have the watchdog device in the kernel
enabled it checks the process creation. 
2) Let top and maybe a repeated procinfo run on a different vc before you
start the forkbomb. This way you should get information about what's going
on. In particular check the memory values.

Michael

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