[7414] in bugtraq
Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Shaw)
Tue Jul 28 12:39:32 1998
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:13:05 -0400
Reply-To: David Shaw <dshaw@JABBERWOCKY.COM>
From: David Shaw <dshaw@JABBERWOCKY.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19980727112359.18461@dimensional.com>; from Michael Fuhr on Mon,
Jul 27, 1998 at 11:23:59AM -0600
On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 11:23:59AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> run the above program, type a few characters, press return, observe
> either kernel panic or machine hang. panic message is
> "panic: ureadc: non-positive resid". Any user can do this.
FWIW, on BSD/OS 3.1 the program fails with EINVAL, just like NetBSD.
David
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