Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 14:55:25 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: Brian Feldman <brianfeldman@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current instabilities Message-ID: <19980527145525.02573@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <19980527032329.16263.qmail@m2.findmail.com>; from Brian Feldman on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 03:23:29AM -0000 References: <19980527032329.16263.qmail@m2.findmail.com>
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[Please format 78 cols next time :-)]
Brian Feldman writes:
> 2) "options VM86" - EVIL EVIL EVIL! This really allows way too much
> access to the memory by a mortal, and it's an effective DoS attack if a
> user runs doscmd, say, and a certain executable (this time, I happened
> to try ZSnes). Think there may be a way to make this safer? (I locked
> myself up, and it didn't panic so I don't know what exact function
> caused it). Also, could USER_LDT possibly be used as a DoS attack, like
> it seems to me it could?
It can: an old WINE binary lying around freezes my machine solid.
Been doing so for 1~2 months (available on request)
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-[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]-
«Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead
IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?»
- S. Kelly Bootle
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