Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 17:16:38 -0400 (EDT) From: James Snow <sno@teardrop.org> To: Wojtek <sopel@nemezis.ipan.lublin.pl> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KKIS.05051999.003b (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990506171448.93852A-100000@silver.teardrop.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905062211220.20699-200000@nemezis.ipan.lublin.pl>
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Wojtek wrote:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[ Description ]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> As you know, "The UNIX-domain protocol family is a collection of protocols
> that provides local interprocess communication through the normal socket
> mechanism. It supports the SOCK_STREAM and SOCK_DGRAM soceket types and uses
> filesystem pathnames for addressing."
> The SOCK_STREAM sockets also supports the communication of UNIX file
> descriptors through the use of functions sendmsg() and recvmsg().
> While testing UNIX-domain protocols, we have found probable bug in
> FreeBSD's implementation of this mechanism.
> When we had run attached example on FreeBSD-3.0 as local user, system
> had crashed imediatelly with error "Supervisor read, page not present"
> in kernel mode.
FWIW, I'm running this a 3.1-R box as we speak, and am using said box to
ssh to this box and write this message.
Other than causing the following problem:
ls: .: Too many open files in system
it doesn't appear to be doing anything to me.
So, 3.1 is in the clear, it seems.
-sno
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