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From: tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
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Subject: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ???
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Date: 13 Mar 91 03:23:01 GMT
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brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:

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>   If your sysadmin (much less the vendor itself) left /dev/kmem world
>   WRITABLE, they're begging for this kind of thing. Readable, possibly;
>   writable, c'mon.

A readable kmem is still a bit no no.  Somewhere around here I have small
program that lets you peek at what someone is typing by watching tty clists.
It will let you crash the system; it just takes a little longer (you have
to wait for someone to type in the root password so you can su and cat
/bin/emacs to /dev/null :)

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