bitmaps in srv_lsa_hnd.c
Tim Potter
tpot at linuxcare.com.au
Mon Oct 9 03:58:29 GMT 2000
Gerald Carter writes:
> > You'll still get a DoS attack of sorts, as opening 64 handles
> > without closing them would prevent other people from opening more
> > handles for legitmate purposes.
>
> But only on a single smbd which is associated with
> a single user/client. Opening a new policy handle involves
> a malloc so if there was not an upper bound on this, you
> could theoretically crater the server by causing an smbd
> process to suck up all the available RAM.
OK - I didn't think long enough about that one. (-:
Tim.
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