[7441] in bugtraq
Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Jul 29 00:14:56 1998
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 17:39:29 -0400
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@PIERMONT.COM>
X-To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@CVS.OPENBSD.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:05:45 MDT."
<199807280405.WAA08052@cvs.openbsd.org>
Theo de Raadt writes:
> Whoopty doo -- another way to crash another operating system has been
> reported. This is twice now that a 'local' OpenBSD crash has made it
> to bugtraq as if it were a typical exploit. Does this now mean
> bugtraq is open ground for reporting any way to crash a multiuser
> operating system?
It always has been in the past.
> I bet there are plenty of ways to crash any operating system, if you
> have a local account.
"There shouldn't be".
Perry
