From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 11 11:43:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15041 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:43:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from SchematiX.net (schematix.net [24.234.31.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15031 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:43:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@SchematiX.net) Received: from localhost (scott@localhost) by SchematiX.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01849; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:41:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@SchematiX.net) Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:41:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott To: Dean Hollister cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Marius Bendiksen , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Huge Bug in FreeBSD not fixed? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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