Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:41:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott <scott@SchematiX.net> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huge Bug in FreeBSD not fixed? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808111140400.1821-100000@SchematiX.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980811174316.14598A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I ran this thing 20 times, with and without the -harder option, and it > > did absolutely nothing to my box. Just goes to show, these things > > generally constitute fairly apocryphal evidence without a lot more > > details. Also, just for the record, people have attacked freefall > > many times. Just because someone said he was going to nuke you one > > day and it worked (and I have no idea how seriously well-maintained > > your systems are from a security fascist's perspective) is by no means > > an indication that it works every time or in every circumstance. :-) > > I did the same on odyssey, running 2.2.7-STABLE and make > build/installworld done 7 days ago. > > On all executions, lots of scrolling text... > > ...no kernel panicks. > > Then again, these sorts of hoaxes can be entertaining. ;-) Well its not a hoax by any means. I ran the program, it took down my machine and that was it. I ran the exploit 3 times to make sure. I also had someone else run it, and their machine crashed. > > Regards, > > d. > > +-------------------------------------------------------+ > | Dean Hollister, | dean@mushka.ml.org | > | Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au | > +-------------------------------------------------------+ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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