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Date:      Tue, 2 May 1995 05:30:02 -0700
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@morton.cdrom.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   kern/376: tcpdump seems to cause spontaneous reboots
Message-ID:  <199505021230.FAA03186@freefall.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 2 May 1995 05:24:01 -0700 <199505021224.FAA12380@morton.cdrom.com>

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>Number:         376
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       tcpdump seems to cause spontaneous reboots
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May  2 05:30:01 1995
>Originator:     Gary J Palmer
>Organization:

Walnut Creek CDROM

>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386
>Environment:

Any machine with a relatively recent kernel and the bpf compiled into the 
kernel on an active network.

>Description:

tcpdump seems to cause random reboots on active IP networks. At least 3
different machines on WC's ethernets have suffered from this bug in the
last week. Using a filter seems to cause the bug to occur more rapidly.
(Judging from what David Greenman said last week in a different context
 the bpf when used by tcpdump is causing a kernel stack overflow).

>How-To-Repeat:

tcpdump

>Fix:
	
Unknown.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:





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