ee using 99% cpu after user ssh session terminates abnormaly

[Nate Nielsen]

talonz wrote:
> Recently i have been using a dialup 56k account to access the net
> and have noticed that when my ssh session times out and I am editing
> a file in ` ee ' the system goes to 99% cpu usage and stays like
> this till the pid is killed.
> This is a standard user account (not root/su)

This happens all the time on servers I manage. It's a real pain because
it's hard to see the actual load of the machine. We have a dumb hack of
a script that kill these off when they happen.

> Would a user be able to create a denial of service condition
> on the remote system using this bug?

Don't think so, unless there's a process getting starved somewhere, in
which case the DOS would be basically impossible to prevent.

Cheers,
Nate