Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 16:13:12 -0500 From: Mike Uttech <mike@negativezero.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1 remote reboot exploit (fwd) Message-ID: <19990504210951.3781215C1E@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199905042053.OAA04656@harmony.village.org> References: <Your message of "Mon, 03 May 1999 19:40:59 EDT."<XFMail.990503194059.vev@michvhf.com> <XFMail.990503194059.vev@michvhf.com>
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We used to have problems with one of our 3.1-RELEASE boxes randomly locking up with no logs of why. We decided to split the load off of the one machine and have not had a problem with it locking up since. If my memory serves me today, I remember reading about a problem in the 3.1-RELEASE distribution that under heavy load caused the system to hang or reboot. I personally feel that many of these people (the ones who are saying they have been having random reboots) are not being attacked in anyway but rather are having their machines overloaded and rebooting. Mike At 03:53 PM 5/4/99 , Warner Losh wrote: >In message <XFMail.990503194059.vev@michvhf.com> Vince Vielhaber writes: >: It's typically in bad taste to post it to BugTraq before contacting the >: vendor. > >I can say that no one appears to have contacted security-officer about >this. People have contacted us in the past saying that their machine >randomly reboots. When pressed for details, or to enable ddb or crash >dumps to see why the machine is rebooting, they disappear and nothing >further is heard from them. > >Warner > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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