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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:27:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: easy way to crash freebsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103021527240.27749-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010302152553.H8663@fw.wintelcom.net>

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lol....ya that would definately be a killer :)


On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:25:53 -0800
> From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
> To: Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>
> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: easy way to crash freebsd
> 
> > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote:
> > 
> > > symbolic link /etc/resolv.conf
> > > to a non-existant file....throw a bunch of connections at it
> > > and watch it reboot.
> 
> * Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com> [010302 15:24] wrote:
> > 
> > People asking me how this could be used as a local user.
> > Well i guess if you wanted to you could find something root runs
> > that writes to /tmp then umask resolv.conf
> > and echo "" > resolv.conf
> > 
> > I am in no way supporting that...just answering a question.
> 
> Try overwriting /dev/mem, it's much more interesting.
> 
> -- 
> -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> 


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