Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine

From: David Shaw (dshawat_private)
Date: Mon Jul 27 1998 - 20:13:05 PDT

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On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 11:23:59AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
>         run the above program, type a few characters, press return, observe
>         either kernel panic or machine hang. panic message is
>         "panic: ureadc: non-positive resid". Any user can do this.

FWIW, on BSD/OS 3.1 the program fails with EINVAL, just like NetBSD.

David

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