| Morgan Wajda-Levie on Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:36:43 -0400 (EDT) |
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On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 07:21:51PM -0700, Nick R wrote: > My programming prof started talking about stack overflows today in class and > I commented that you probably couldn't do that in Linux, that it would just > shut down the program. Well I telnetted into my box at home and tried it out > for him. Sure enough I got a segmentation fault and the program exited, > leaving my computer up and running sans problems. It got me thinking. What > does it actually take to crash a Linux box? I'd assume you wouldn't be able > to just write to memory in kernel space or something like you could in W95 > and the like. Short of modifying the kernel code what does it take to crash > a Linux box & is there any way to do this w/o root access? This is a bit of a cheap trick, but a friend of mine crashed his box by accidentally unplugging his mounted Win95 drive. He was able to write a file, but when he ran make it segfaulted, and then logging out of X hung it. -- Morgan Wajda-Levie http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev PGP fingerprint: A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616 F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key encrypted mail preferred Attachment:
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