[4747] in bugtraq
Re: Core file anomalies under BSDi 3.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theo de Raadt)
Fri Jun 20 16:09:16 1997
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 02:59:14 -0600
Reply-To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@CVS.OPENBSD.ORG>
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@CVS.OPENBSD.ORG>
X-To: Nir Soffer <scorpios@CS.HUJI.AC.IL>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jun 1997 20:42:33 +0300."
<Pine.BSI.3.96.970619203128.27848A-100000@beep.cs.huji.ac.il>
> A small and neat bug in BSDi 3.x allows people to arbitrarly write files
> with crap for data, but not overwrite them. Like so:
That's a neat "fill up the root partition" denial of service attack.
It probably works in lots of other operating systems.
It doesn't work in OpenBSD.
