18 May
2006
18 May
'06
6:25 p.m.
Hello L4 Hackers, a long time ago (*), Jochen Liedtke described a potential denial-of-service attack against the L4 kernel by -IIRC- requesting a huge number of mappings, thereby exhausting kernel memory. Does this issue still exist in the current L4 implementations or has it been solved (How?). Kind Regards Rob (*) see http://i30www.ira.uka.de/research/documents/l4ka/preventing-denial-of-servic... -- Robert Kaiser <rkaiser@sysgo.com> SYSGO AG Tel.: +49-6136-9948-0 Am Pfaffenstein 14 Fax: +49-6136-9948-10 55270 Klein-Winternheim http://www.sysgo.com