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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:44:18 +0200
From:      Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker@xs4all.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        laszlo.danielisz@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:
Message-ID:  <20071022164418.GA864@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net>
In-Reply-To: <123275.56819.qm@web30812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <123275.56819.qm@web30812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, Danielisz Laszlo wrote:
> Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine.
> I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this?

Wow,, my machine just crashed :-/
Does in this work on other OS's as well (ie. GNU/Linux)? Or just
(Free?)BSD? I really don't feel like crashing another machine right
now...

Only works in sh, not in csh.

Anyway, this seems to be security/stability issue, maybe a PR is in
order?

Regards,
Martin Tournoij



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