Re: Code that crashes kernel at will + proposed patch

[Artur Grabowski <art@blahonga.org>]

Chad Loder <cloder@acm.org> writes:

> 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/

No it doesn't, unless you explicitly disallow your users to exec their own
binaries.

//art

> 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).