Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:03:28 -0400 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: 'Simon Barner' <barner@in.tum.de>, current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Bogus signal handler causes kernel panic (5.2.1-p8/i386) Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337051D8FF1@mail.sandvine.com>
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From: Simon Barner [mailto:barner@in.tum.de] > Hi, > > I tried the local denial of service attack described in [1], that was > reported for Linux 2.4 and 2.6 some days ago (see [2] for the original > thread in linux.kernel) on my FreeBSD 5.2.1-p8 system. > > The result is a kernel panic (back trace attached). > > Since des@ told me in a private mail, that he could not reprocduce the > panic on -CURRENT, I'd like to ask how to proceed from here. > > Is the problem known to be fixed in current? > Is somebody able to reproduce this on FreeBSD 5.2.1 (I am sorry, > upgrading to -CURRENT is out of question for me)? > > Please note, that the problem does not exist on FreeBSD 4.9 (the test > program simply dumps core (bt attached)). > > Thanks in advance for your hints, > Simon On current, this doesn't seem to do anything bad for me. --don
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