Re: Possible Security Vulnerability
From: Will Andrews (TrimYourCc@physics.purdue.edu)
Date: 02/25/01
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:36:36 -0500 From: Will Andrews <TrimYourCc@physics.purdue.edu> To: Jonathan Slivko <js43064n@pace.edu>
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On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:32:04PM -0500, Jonathan Slivko wrote:
> I have been testing the security on my machine (FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE) and
> I noticed a bug that could potentially reboot a box from any type of user,
> root or regular user. What I did was I just gave the box a whole bunch of w
> commands like w;w;w;w;w, etc. and just let that run. A few seconds later,
> the box coredumped and rebooted. I got this to occur several times in a row.
> Is this some kind of known vulnerability or is this just something that will
> have to be investigated further? If interested in more details, please feel
> free to e-mail me. Thanks.
That's not a security vulnerability (ie defined as something which gives
an attacker elevated privileges), that's a bug. Nevertheless, I can't
reproduce it.. possibly because you've given next to nothing as far as
details go.
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