defend from -> :() { :&:; } ;:

[Mike Jeays]

On October 22, 2007 12:44:18 pm Martin Tournoij wrote:
> On Sun 21 Oct 2007 12:10, Danielisz Laszlo wrote:
> > Please do not try to execute this: :() { :&:; } ;: on your BSD machine.
> > I ask all who already tried it how to defend from this?
>
> Wow,, my machine just crashed :-/
> Does in this work on other OS's as well (ie. GNU/Linux)? Or just
> (Free?)BSD? I really don't feel like crashing another machine right
> now...
>
> Only works in sh, not in csh.
>
> Anyway, this seems to be security/stability issue, maybe a PR is in
> order?
>
> Regards,
> Martin Tournoij
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Yes, it brought down my Ubuntu 7.10 system pretty well immediately.  I had to 
reboot.




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