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Re: Core file anomalies under BSDi 3.0
From: deraadt () CVS OPENBSD ORG (Theo de Raadt)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 02:59:14 -0600


A small and neat bug in BSDi 3.x allows people to arbitrarly write files
with crap for data, but not overwrite them. Like so:


That's a neat "fill up the root partition" denial of service attack.
It probably works in lots of other operating systems.

It doesn't work in OpenBSD.

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