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Re: Core file anomalies under BSDi 3.0

From: deraadt () CVS OPENBSD ORG (Theo de Raadt)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 02:59:14 -0600

A small and neat bug in BSDi 3.x allows people to arbitrarly write files
with crap for data, but not overwrite them. Like so:


That's a neat "fill up the root partition" denial of service attack.
It probably works in lots of other operating systems.

It doesn't work in OpenBSD.

Current thread:

Re: Netscape Admin Servers /tmp/deamonstat Matthew Archibald (Jun 17)
- Re: Netscape Admin Servers /tmp/deamonstat Joe Zbiciak (Jun 17)
- Solaris 2.5.1 party piece Alan Cox (Jun 19)
  - Core file anomalies under BSDi 3.0 Nir Soffer (Jun 19)
    - Re: Core file anomalies under BSDi 3.0 Theo de Raadt (Jun 20)
    - Re: Core file anomalies under BSDi 3.0 Ariel Biener (Jun 20)
    - http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,11759,00.html Aleph One (Jun 20)
    - Re: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,11759,00.html Raymond Dijkxhoorn (Jun 21)
    - Re: Core file anomalies under BSDi 3.0 Stacey Son (Jun 20)
  - /cgi-bin/handler - more notes Razvan Dragomirescu (Jun 19)
  - Re: Solaris 2.5.1 party piece Doug Hughes (Jun 19)
    - Re: Solaris 2.5.1 party piece Bojan Zdrnja (Jun 20)
    - Re: Solaris 2.5.1 party piece Joe Gross (Jun 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Netscape Admin Servers /tmp/deamonstat Corinne Posse (Jun 17)
  - Re: Netscape Admin Servers /tmp/deamonstat Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU (Jun 18)

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