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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
Message-ID:  <20010302152553.H8663@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103021521000.27749-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com>; from dphoenix@bravenet.com on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:23:15PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103021514400.27749-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com> <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103021521000.27749-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com>

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> 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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