Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 07:47:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> To: Scott <scott@SchematiX.net> Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huge Bug in FreeBSD not fixed? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980811074034.20020A-100000@austral> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808110025020.216-200000@SchematiX.net>
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This is a 'me too'. This program crashed my Pentium 120 (48MB) each time I ran it from within an X-term, but not when I ran it from another TTY. In the latter case it reported '38 processes' or '47 processes' terminated normally. It was a hard crash - the cursor froze for a few moments, then the screen went black and the machine rebooted. The first time it crashed, fsck produced a number of 'salvaging...' messages; the second time, it just had to reset the clean flag in the superblock, on each of my filesystems. Version is 2.2.7, as installed from the CheapBytes CD. Jordan - maybe this should not be dismissed too quickly? On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Scott wrote: > I ran across this bug a while back on rootshell, and then again by a user > on IRC who offered to take down my box. Soon after that, the bug was fixed > and things were fine. But just out of boredom, i decided to run the > exploit again. Sure enough, i had a kernel panic and that was it. All of > this from a normal user account. The bug has reoccured recently and may > cause problems on my server if the users find out about the vulnerability. > > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE (Last compiled on August 5th early in > the morning). The system is running on a PII233 with 64MB RAM. This bug > REALLY needs to be fixed ASAP. > > I would like to know if other systes are vulnerable as well. I discussed > this matter on IRC and everyone said they had similar problems. This bug > needs to be addressed soon. I would HATE switching to linux because my > system keeps crashing. > > > --------------- > Scott Swindells, SchematiX.NET > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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