Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 02:03:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott <scott@SchematiX.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huge Bug in FreeBSD not fixed? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808110158520.610-100000@SchematiX.net> In-Reply-To: <305.902824375@time.cdrom.com>
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Which version of FreeBSD were you running? As i mentioned, a previous compile didn't have the problems, but it seems to have resurfaced (for me at least). This isn't a remote exploit my any means. One must have an account then run the exploit. I should have dumps from the crashes. Maybe limiting user processes would take care of this problem? On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I experienced the same thing, with someone on IRC threatening to take down > > my box. Of course, I laughed at him, but then my box went down. He also > > said he was going to attack freefall, and that would _certainly_ be bad > > news. He was running Linux, as I recall. > > I ran this thing 20 times, with and without the -harder option, and it > did absolutely nothing to my box. Just goes to show, these things > generally constitute fairly apocryphal evidence without a lot more > details. Also, just for the record, people have attacked freefall > many times. Just because someone said he was going to nuke you one > day and it worked (and I have no idea how seriously well-maintained > your systems are from a security fascist's perspective) is by no means > an indication that it works every time or in every circumstance. :-) > > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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