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From: jamiE rishaw - master e*tard <jamiE@arpa.com>
To: Sean Trifero <sean@innu.org>
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Subject: Re: bugtraq posts:  stream.c - new FreeBSD exploit?
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The poster got his info from me.

That was my box (x.arpa.com) that he pasted syslog from that I pasted
to him.

I have no sound hardware :)

It's not a FBSD system.. It's Linux 2.x

Tho I do have and run FBSD boxen and see the same result.

Regards

-jamie

On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:58:18PM -0500, Sean Trifero wrote:
> 
> This is on a Linux 2.2.14 system.
> 
> /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c:  panic("Free list empty");
> 
> 
> Sean Trifero <sean@innu.org>
> 
> Dima Ruban wrote:
> 
> > Mike Tancsa writes:
> > >
> > > Can anyone confirm the bugtraq posting ?  Are the freebsd folks working on
> > > a fix ? If so, what versions are effected ?
> >
> > I personaly haven't seen the code in question, but I've heard that
> > this problem is not FreeBSD specific (Linux,Solaris,OpenBSD,etc etc etc
> > are all affected). And due to the nature of the problem it won't be easy to
> > fix it.
> >
> > >       ---Mike
> > >
> > > >The only log that he could provide was this one:
> > > >
> > > >---snip---
> > > >
> > > >syslog:Jan 18 12:30:36 x kernel: Kernel panic: Free list empty
> > > >
> > > >---snip---
> > > >
> > > >One thing of note:  he also stated this happened on non-freebsd systems,
> > > >which is contrary to what the other person said, who was "under the
> > > >impression it was freebsd specific."
> > > >
> > > >I have the source, which I'm not going to post for 2-3 days (give time for
> > > >fbsd to work on the fix).  If it isn't out before the 21st, I'll post it up.
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Mike Tancsa,                                            tel +1 519 651 3400
> > > Network Administrator,                          mike@sentex.net
> > > Sentex Communications                                   www.sentex.net
> > > Cambridge, Ontario Canada
> > >
> >
> > -- dima
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