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Re: Locally exploitable races? OpenBSD

To: Hannah Schroeter <uk1o@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Subject: Re: Locally exploitable races? OpenBSD
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 15:07:51 -0600
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106050900180.8733-100000@freenet.nether.net> <200106051749.f55HnS630115@xerxes.courtesan.com> <20010605220736.A11852@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>

In message <20010605220736.A11852@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
	so spake Hannah Schroeter (uk1o):

> Huh? As long as non-root users can invoke rfork() and can thus crash
> (and possibly more) the machine by purpose, it IS a real problem IMHO.

Sorry, there are many, many ways to localhost DoS any Unix system,
OpenBSD included.

 - todd

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