Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:11:12 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery@ECE.CMU.EDU> Subject: Re: head -c 32 /dev/socksys caused panic? To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG +----- From: A Fortunate K-9 <a42n8k9@REDROSE.NET> | I was experimenting with different sources of random data when I ran the | following command "head -c 32 /dev/socksys" only to find my system go into | a complete panic, crash, and reboot. I should note that I was logged in as | an ordinary user, and the system is Slackware 2.0.34. | | Has anyone else heard of something like this? +--->8 /dev/socksys is part of iBCS support; I'll forward this to the ibcs dev list. I doubt that anyone paid much attention to it being accessed from programs not using the ibcs call gate, although if you don't have ibcs loaded it's a kernel problem. I don't think anything other than a denial of service due to the panic is possible from this, but I haven't examined the most recent TLI emulation code. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)