Recent full disclosure post - Local DOS

[Fabian Keil]

Tom Judge <tom at tomjudge.com> wrote:

> Has anyone looked at this:
> 
> [Full-disclosure] FreeBSD local denial of service - forced reboot
> 
> http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-January/078836.html

I don't have a 8.0-RELEASE with a "specific network driver"
around for testing, but at least on 9.0-CURRENT amd64 with
iwn and bge it doesn't seem to work:

fk at r500 ~/test/freebsd $./freebsd-crash 
SUCCESS!
SUCCESS!
SUCCESS!
fk at r500 ~/test/freebsd $sudo ./freebsd-crash 
Password:
SUCCESS!
SUCCESS!
SUCCESS!

Fabian
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