Subject: Re: a bug in systrace to crash the system
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Francisco =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gayt=E1n?= <fg@hispabsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/16/2002 20:18:47
El Sat, 16 de Nov de 2002, a las 07:30:50PM +0200, Ossi Herrala dijo:
> As an accident I found a nice "feature" to crash my system.
> 
> Just by doing a following:
> 
> mkdir ~/.systrace
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=~/.systrace/bin_ls bs=500 count=1
> systrace ls
> 
> will do it. I'm running
> 
> NetBSD txpo 1.6J NetBSD 1.6J (GENERIC.MP) #0: Mon Oct 28 00:12:10 EET 2002
> 
> Can someone test this also so it's not only in my system?
> 

/home/fg/.systrace/bin_ls:1: input line too long.

My machine doesn't crash. I'm running NetBSD 1.6K (x86).

Regards.

> 
> -- 
> Ossi Herrala
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