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Re: Code that crashes kernel at will + proposed patch

To: Marco Peereboom <marcodsl@swbell.net>, tech@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Code that crashes kernel at will + proposed patch
From: Chad Loder <cloder@acm.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 12:34:43 -0800

I was able to reproduce this on OpenBSD 2.9-STABLE.

The "Stephanie" TPE patch seems to protect against
non-root exploitation of this DoS.

         http://www.packetfactory.net/Projects/Stephanie/

At Sunday 12/2/2001 11:22 AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
>Hi,
>
>While I was coding away in userland I ran into a piece of code that will
>crash the kernel regardless of user (root or non-root).

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Code that crashes kernel at will + proposed patch
  - From: Artur Grabowski <art@blahonga.org>

References:
- Code that crashes kernel at will + proposed patch
  - From: Marco Peereboom <marcodsl@swbell.net>

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