RE: Locally exploitable races? OpenBSD

[Daniel Grunblatt <daniel@grunblatt.com.ar>]

that doesn't work on OpenBSD 2.9-current

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Lipscomb, Al wrote:

> > Now, if you read the message carefully you'll see that the person has
> > infomed Theo couple of weeks ago and has offered assistance. Looks
> > to me [and it is beeing presented] as that Theo didn't react at all,
> > and now the same thing: no reaction at all.
> > 
> 
> If you read the message carefully you will find that the bulk of the message
> is a flame by one of the core Linux developers attempting to rub Theo's nose
> in how much Linux is better audited and better written it is than OpenBSD.
> 
> You want to screw up a box that you have shell access to?
> 
> 'cat /dev/zero > /tmp/x'
> 
> No need for fancy exploits.