From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 2 15:28:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gandalf.vi.bravenet.com (gandalf.bravenet.com [139.142.105.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40F4E37B718 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:28:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dphoenix@bravenet.com) Received: (qmail 15906 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Mar 2001 23:27:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Mar 2001 23:27:42 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:27:42 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Phoenix To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easy way to crash freebsd In-Reply-To: <20010302152553.H8663@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To: Dan Phoenix > 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 [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] > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message