Fork Bomb

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A Fork Bomb works by using the fork() call to create a new process which is a copy of the original. By doing this repeatedly, all available processes on the machine can be taken up.

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Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Fork Bombs
possessive: Fork Bomb's
pluralpossessive: Fork Bombs'

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