From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 11 02:05:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03896 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 02:05:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from SchematiX.net (schematix.net [24.234.31.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03878 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 02:05:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@SchematiX.net) Received: from localhost (scott@localhost) by SchematiX.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA00690; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 02:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@SchematiX.net) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 02:03:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Marius Bendiksen , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huge Bug in FreeBSD not fixed? In-Reply-To: <305.902824375@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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