easy to crash -STABLE with debugger

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Jun 16 16:42:37 GMT 2005


On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:16:31PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> This should not be possible, but I can crash my system with no effort.
> The only thing I get logged is:
> 
> Jun 15 16:02:48 server kernel: Fatal double fault
> 
> All I have to do is run a program that seg faults or has some other
> problem.  The most recent one was abiword.  I did the following:
> 
> gdb `which abiword`
> (gdb) r
> 
> then I opened a file and did a "save as...", which causes a seg fault.
> Then I did a
> 
> (gdb) c
> 
> and boom! reboot.

Please set up DDB as described in the developers handbook and obtain a
debugging traceback.

Kris
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