Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:18:00 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any work around for this FreeBSD bug/DoS ? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990817231641.04640280@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199908180031.RAA40827@apollo.backplane.com> References: <4.1.19990816203409.05989960@granite.sentex.ca> <4.1.19990816213403.05a3b540@granite.sentex.ca> <4.2.0.58.19990817182156.0463ecd0@localhost>
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Well, who's a kernel memory allocation expert? I would dive on this one, but I'd be coming in cold; I've never messed with that part of the kernel at all. All I know about mbuf allocation is what's in McKusick. --Brett At 05:31 PM 8/17/99 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: >: >:Perhaps. But this is no excuse for leaving such a serious hole open! No >:unprivileged user should be able to crash the system under any circumstances. >:Especially not this easily. >: >:--Brett > > I agree, but being a freeware project someone has to decide to fix it. > I've got my hands full with VM (and not having commit privs already makes > that difficult enough). > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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