Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 01:28:58 -0500 (EST) From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net> To: jason schwab <jasonschwab@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: !!!really, really big problem with *BSD!!! Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9912170123250.25716-100000@oracle.dsuper.net> In-Reply-To: <19991217060946.67059.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, jason schwab wrote: !>I was surfing the net and talking on irc, as usual, I see this !>sockopt.c file, my friend sends me it, he tells me it'll lock up !>any openbsd / netbsd / freebsd server, just compile normally and run !>it.. poof locks up... !> !>I tried it on OpenBSD 2.5, OpenBSD 2.6, FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE, !>FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE, FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE and FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE !> !>and it WORKED. This situation has been fixed, in two different ways which, for what concerns this particular "problem" (really, it's a resource exhaustion) in -CURRENT: (a) Limit sockbuf size. (b) Code has been added to -CURRENT which will prevent the system from going down. (e.g. panic()). !> !>can we work together on fixxing this? non-root user, just compiles !>and runs, and poof system locks up. !> !>Thanks, !>Jason L. Schwab !> !>(below is the sockopt.c file, also found on www.hack.co.za) !> !><......snip.......> You really should have taken a look at the mailing list archives before switching on the alarm. :-) Bosko. -- Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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