[7396] in bugtraq
Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd C. Miller)
Mon Jul 27 16:58:54 1998
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:32:19 -0600
Reply-To: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@COURTESAN.COM>
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@COURTESAN.COM>
X-To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of "27 Jul 1998 11:51:48 PDT."
<v6pver2kl7.fsf@kechara.lh.vix.com>
In message <v6pver2kl7.fsf@kechara.lh.vix.com>
so spake Michael Graff (explorer):
> I tested a NetBSD/i386-1.3.2 machine just now, which also returned
> EINVAL.
That's not correct behavior either. iov_len is unsigned so making it
-1 (which is the unsigned value 4294967295) should not be an error.
- todd
