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crashme (was Re: udp packet storms)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Arnold)
Thu Nov 3 15:17:50 1994

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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 94 10:12:37 MST
From: era@ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
Reply-To: era@ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)

Perry Metzger wrote:

> I also haven't tried running the program that generates random code
> and executes it lately. I believe it was called something like
> "crashme" but I'm probably wrong. I recall that it used to do nicely
> under older 4.1.X environments, though the latest 4.1.3s might not go
> south any longer. I'll have to check...

The version of "crashme" I got in Jul 91 doesn't seem to crash a
4.1.3_U1 machine ... the program just takes a bunch of SIGILL and
SIGSEGV, then dumps core.

But, then, maybe I didn't try enough permutations ...

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