Description of problem: I don't know if this is really a bug in bash, but it's worthy looking. When any user executes a certain command, the system halts and becomes inaccessible (even with ssh). This is really annoying and brings some concerns about system security. The command is: (:(){ :|:;};:) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bash-3.1-6.2 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a terminal as any user (root or not root) 2. Type the following command: (:(){ :|:;};:) 3. Press Enter and see your system hanging and Hard Disk working.
You need to set user limits with 'ulimit' or PAM's limits.conf.
Thank you for the input, I was already thinking of this... BTW, isn't be good to set a reasonable limit in FC defaults? As any user can execute that, normal users can be tricked to execute this, hanging the system. I think that preventing this per default is a good thing :) Just a thought.