Date: 27 May 1998 03:23:29 -0000 From: "Brian Feldman" <brianfeldman@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: current instabilities Message-ID: <19980527032329.16263.qmail@m2.findmail.com>
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1) Heads up Julian, Luoqi, it took an amazing 6 days but SoftUpdates FINALLY crashed during a make -j4 world; the panic was dangling deps, but I didn't save the core, so I lost it, besides the fact I'm sure vmcore's from SoftUpdates crashes aren't in short supply ;) But good job guys, you've got it stable enough to stay up almost a week 2) "options VM86" - EVIL EVIL EVIL! This really allows way too much access to the memory by a mortal, and it's an effective DoS attack if a user runs doscmd, say, and a certain executable (this time, I happened to try ZSnes). Think there may be a way to make this safer? (I locked myself up, and it didn't panic so I don't know what exact function caused it). Also, could USER_LDT possibly be used as a DoS attack, like it seems to me it could? Cheers, Brian Feldman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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