From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jul 24 7:45: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F9F37B403 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 07:45:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdf.lists@fxp.org) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1501) id 24CBE13619; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:45:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:45:00 -0400 From: Chris Faulhaber To: Jeff Gentry Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should I be concerned? Message-ID: <20010724104500.B42475@peitho.fxp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Faulhaber , Jeff Gentry , freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="opJtzjQTFsWo+cga" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from freebsd@hexdump.org on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:53:01AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:53:01AM -0400, Jeff Gentry wrote: > Hi there ... >=20 > I noticed this in my /var/log/messages yesterday: > Jul 23 13:03:24 hellfire /kernel: pid 279 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal 10 > (core dumped) >=20 > Specifically, a sh w/ uid 0 core dumping didn't sit well with me. >=20 > I can't find anything in the various other logs that is at all > "funny" within a few minutes of that - which is not at all out of the > ordinary as there isn't much traffic on this machine. >=20 > Signal 10 is a bus error, right? >=20 > Are there any exploits out there currently which would generate a SIGBUS > like that? Or would this be indiciative of failing hardware somehwere? >=20 ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-01:42.signal.a= sc --=20 Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iEYEARECAAYFAjtdiesACgkQObaG4P6BelCo6QCbBi3bja+6RmOapLPOU3duR4Xq oGEAnjaLMP/OEnuDFfc0VGNiVrsCf5pO =nv3J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message