Re: weird daily check output

From: Peter Radcliffe (pir@pir.net)
Date: 03/27/01 

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:58:42 -0500
From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org

"Michael A. Dickerson" <mikey@singingtree.com> probably said:
> scans. Then the binary garbage at the top of the dmesg has the look of a
> buffer overflow, although I don't have any explanation for how it could wind
> up in kernel memory.

binary garbage like that before and between dmesg info is pretty
common on machines that do not clear that section of memory on a
reboot (like my vaio laptop doesn't).

If you look at the dmesg infor theres a reboot message part way
through.

P. 

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