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From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: i386/5174: kbdcontrol(1) can easily crash system 
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The following reply was made to PR i386/5174; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: dada@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: i386/5174: kbdcontrol(1) can easily crash system 
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 07:47:35 +0900

 >>Number:         5174
 >>Category:       i386
 >>Synopsis:       kbdcontrol(1) can easily crash system
 >>Confidential:   yes
 >>Severity:       serious
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 29 02:00:00 PST 1997
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Martin Kammerhofer
 >>Organization:
 >Graz University of Technology
 >>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386
 >>Environment:
 >
 >syscons driver configured in kernel (as usual)
 >
 >>Description:
 >
 >Setting history buffer size to an unusual large number reboots the system.
 >
 >Impact: Anyone with access to a /dev/ttyv? can crash the system. Fortunately
 >	this (usually) requires physical access to the console where you could
 >	press the big red button as well...
 
 This has been fixed in v1.235 of 3.0-CURRENT and v.1.182.2.27 
 of 2.2-STABLE.
 
 Kazu