Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:27:35 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: mestery@visi.com Cc: Scott Michel <scottm@CS.UCLA.EDU>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just the kind of news we needed... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907122026280.58023-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9907121336160.16192-100000@isis.visi.com>
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 mestery@visi.com wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Scott Michel wrote: > > > If you haven't /.'d today, there's a news article purporting that > > FreeBSD can be exploited via kernel modules: > > > > > > http://thc.pimmel.com/ > > > I actually found the article a very good source of documentation on > programming loadable modules for FreeBSD. Granted, I'm not sure of it's > accuracy, but it was a worthwhile read for someone like myself who has > only coded LKMs for Linux. Very interesting. I just read through it and it is a nice tutorial on how the module system works. I can't see it as an exploit though - you have to be root first to load any code. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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