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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:32:04 -0500
From:      "Jonathan Slivko" <js43064n@pace.edu>
To:        <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Possible Security Vulnerability
Message-ID:  <002901c09f72$66ebee40$660599ac@winme>

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Hello all,

    I have been testing the security on my machine (FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE) and
I noticed a bug that could potentially reboot a box from any type of user,
root or regular user. What I did was I just gave the box a whole bunch of w
commands like w;w;w;w;w, etc. and just let that run. A few seconds later,
the box coredumped and rebooted. I got this to occur several times in a row.
Is this some kind of known vulnerability or is this just something that will
have to be investigated further? If interested in more details, please feel
free to e-mail me. Thanks.


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