Re: 2.2.0 SECURITY

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:09:53 -0800 (PST)

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On 27-Jan-99 David Lang wrote:
> I saw this is happening on SMP kernels. I am using a UUP kernel, is anyone
> able to duplicate this with a UP kernel?

Yes. It killed my UP PII system hard last night (instant reboot, no messages).
Mostly RH5.1 based.

This is definitely a very real problem. The hit and miss nature of reproducing
the problem is due to libc/tool differences, but they're not the problem. The
problem is that some processes with oddly constructed address spaces will bring
down the system violently.

Anyone run crashme on a recent kernel?

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