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Date:      Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:42:36 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
Cc:        amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: easy to crash -STABLE with debugger
Message-ID:  <20050616164236.GA60548@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1118888191.67168.5.camel@server.mcneil.com>
References:  <1118888191.67168.5.camel@server.mcneil.com>

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:16:31PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> This should not be possible, but I can crash my system with no effort.
> The only thing I get logged is:
>=20
> Jun 15 16:02:48 server kernel: Fatal double fault
>=20
> All I have to do is run a program that seg faults or has some other
> problem.  The most recent one was abiword.  I did the following:
>=20
> gdb `which abiword`
> (gdb) r
>=20
> then I opened a file and did a "save as...", which causes a seg fault.
> Then I did a
>=20
> (gdb) c
>=20
> and boom! reboot.

Please set up DDB as described in the developers handbook and obtain a
debugging traceback.

Kris
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