Forkbomb??

[jdodson]

Michael Anckaert Wrote: 
> Hello all,
> I just read an article on SecurityFocus about how forkbombs can still
> affect modern day distributions.
> The article states Debian isn't affected by the forkbomb and since
> Ubuntu is Debian based, I'm not worried a bit :-).
> 
> But this brings the question to my mind on how the developpers merge
> Debian and Ubuntu? 
> 
> You can read the article at
> http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/308
> 

yeah i saw that this morning.  i heard about the debian immunity thing,
this user seems to have a different experience:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=20775

security patch anyone?


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jdodson