Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:31:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any work around for this FreeBSD bug/DoS ? Message-ID: <199908180031.RAA40827@apollo.backplane.com> References: <4.1.19990816203409.05989960@granite.sentex.ca> <4.1.19990816213403.05a3b540@granite.sentex.ca> <4.2.0.58.19990817182156.0463ecd0@localhost>
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:Perhaps. But this is no excuse for leaving such a serious hole open! No
:unprivileged user should be able to crash the system under any circumstances.
:Especially not this easily.
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:--Brett
I agree, but being a freeware project someone has to decide to fix it.
I've got my hands full with VM (and not having commit privs already makes
that difficult enough).
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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