Re: grsecurity 2.1.0 release / 5 Linux kernel advisories (fwd)

[Andrew Morton]

Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> the below email seems to be very intersting.

An unprivileged local user can DoS a Linux box to death with malloc and
memset, so the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK bug isn't particularly exceptional.  All the
others require root anyway.

I'll pass this on to appropriate people, see if we can get this all fixed
up, thanks.

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