Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 22:50:59 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Random malfunction or hack? Message-ID: <19991007225059.P71340@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991007120245.041a87d0@localhost> References: <4.2.0.58.19991007104520.043fbbb0@localhost> <Pine.BSF.3.96.991007140006.7709G-100000@ruby> <4.2.0.58.19991007120245.041a87d0@localhost>
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On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:13:47PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 02:00 PM 10/7/99 -0400, Adam wrote: > > >What version of FreeBSD? > > 2.2.8-RELEASE, with added patches to fix a known bug or three. Sound very much like a (now fixed) VM bug which triggers very seldom, which leads to page table corruption (IIRC) which trigger on fork(). If this was the case, killing and restarting cron would have fixed it. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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