Gmane
From: Andrew Morton <akpm <at> osdl.org>
Subject: Re: grsecurity 2.1.0 release / 5 Linux kernel advisories (fwd)
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2005-01-07 21:40:14 GMT (4 years, 25 weeks, 2 days, 20 hours and 45 minutes ago)
Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi <at> gmail.com> 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.