r/securityCTF • • 4h ago

Those who have completed pwn.college, is anyone else having trouble with the fork bomb challenge?

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I have working on pwn.college for about roughly a month maybe. I am currently finishing up the Computing 101 challenges. I was stuck on a specific Linux Luminarium challenge called fork bomb.

To those unaware, this challenge requests that you create a fork bomb to create background process and keep duplicating until no more processes can be run and it becomes overloaded. It asks that you run /challenge/check in another terminal and run the bomb afterwards. Back in the first terminal it has been running a specific prompt, but after becoming overloaded, it should display the flag and challenge is completed. But it isn't giving me the flag. I've been stuck on this for roughly a week and progressed past, but I want to be able to complete this so I can move on. I have double checked my work with multiple AI's, as well as their built in help AI, but I can't seem to figure out what is going on. Anyone have any experience with this? I can run through my process as well. Thanks.