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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:09:21 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: crash

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 09:39:36AM +0400, Lunar wrote:
> It is simple :
> 
> dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null ;-)

This, unlike the fsave/frstor crasher, requires group kmem or root
access.  So it's irrelevant.

But, yes, until we get more flexible resource limits, it is possible
for local users to effectively crash the system.

-- 
/sd

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