Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

#1

Post by gdb » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 9:28 PM UTC

Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag
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Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by pavel_lishin » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 9:55 PM UTC

I keep getting this:

    level01@ctf:/tmp/tmp.c6PoABNv99$ ls
    bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by sdfjkl » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 9:56 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

I keep getting this: level01@ctf:/tmp/tmp.c6PoABNv99$ ls bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

Someone set us up the (fork)bomb. That didn't take long. Sadly it's a bit silly and ruins all the fun for the rest of us :-/

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

#4

Post by dbalatero » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 9:56 PM UTC

I'm getting a bunch of "bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable" in my SSH session when running commands like `ls`, etc. Could be due to high traffic?

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by dbalatero » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 9:58 PM UTC

sdfjkl wrote: post #3

pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

I keep getting this: level01@ctf:/tmp/tmp.c6PoABNv99$ ls bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

Someone set us up the (fork)bomb. That didn't take long. Sadly it's a bit silly and ruins all the fun for the rest of us :-/

Could something like this (http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-limiting-user-process.ht...) be quickly implemented on the server?

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 9:58 PM UTC

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Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by jcromartie » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 9:58 PM UTC

sdfjkl wrote: post #3

pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

I keep getting this: level01@ctf:/tmp/tmp.c6PoABNv99$ ls bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

Someone set us up the (fork)bomb. That didn't take long. Sadly it's a bit silly and ruins all the fun for the rest of us :-/

Sociopaths...

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by gdb » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 9:59 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #2

I keep getting this: level01@ctf:/tmp/tmp.c6PoABNv99$ ls bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

Bumping rlimit! Should be good for now.

Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 9:59 PM UTC

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Re: Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 22, 2012, 10:03 PM UTC

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