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List: openbsd-security-announce
Subject: Exec header kernel panic
From: Ted Unangst <tedu () zeitbombe ! org>
Date: 2003-11-05 23:54:13
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A local user can cause a kernel panic using a specially crafted binary.
The kernel will attempt to allocate too much memory and panic.
The problem was reported by Georgi Guninski, see also
http://www.guninski.com/msuxobsd1.html
A fix has been committed to 3.3 and 3.4 -stable branches. Patches are
also available at
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.4/common/005_exec.patch
and
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.3/common/010_exec.patch
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