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Re: The memory occupied by bash has been increasing due to the fork bomb


From: zju
Subject: Re: The memory occupied by bash has been increasing due to the fork bomb
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 22:53:38 +0800

> Interactive shells always ignore SIGTERM.

I confirmed that the fork bomb through bash would cause the system oom! This 
indicates that anybody can use this flaw to crash the system.It is quite 
dangerous.

If you think the behavior of ignoring the SIGTERM is reasonable. Maybe the only 
way to solve the problem is to deal with the increasing of the memory?



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