From owner-freebsd-security Thu Oct 7 15: 4:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E761522E; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26087; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:03:12 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991007155738.042ab450@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 15:58:33 -0600 To: Eivind Eklund From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Random malfunction or hack? Cc: Adam , security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19991007225059.P71340@bitbox.follo.net> References: <4.2.0.58.19991007120245.041a87d0@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19991007104520.043fbbb0@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19991007120245.041a87d0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:50 PM 10/7/99 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: >Sound very much like a (now fixed) VM bug which triggers very seldom, >which leads to page table corruption (IIRC) which trigger on fork(). Oooh. I knew that there were some VM problems in 2.2.8; I didn't know that this would be one of the side effects. Thank you for the heads-up! --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message