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Re:Simple kernel attack: Eat 100% CPU, works under guest, no... by hackermom on Thursday November 25, 2010 @02:43PM (#1940882)
Despite knowing it was aimed at Linux, which I don't use, I still had to try it out to settle my curiosity: it's completely harmless on OpenBSD and Mac OS X; it does not hang either of these OS' kernels, and does not eat FDs.
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Re:Simple kernel attack: Eat 100% CPU, works under guest, no... by kidsat on Thursday November 25, 2010 @05:05PM (#1941113)
BSD doesn't support SOCK_SEQPACKET on unix domain sockets. The app exits early.
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