[bug #19479] Using a buggy trivfs translator to kill you shell

[Thomas Schwinge]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19479>

                 Summary: Using a buggy trivfs translator to kill you shell
                 Project: The GNU Hurd
            Submitted by: tschwinge
            Submitted on: Sunday 04/01/07 at 15:15
                Category: Hurd
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Reproducibility: Every Time
              Size (loc): None
         Planned Release: None
                  Effort: 0.00
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Details:

This translator has the powers to kill itself, plus your shell (!) and maybe
the screen session as well and maybe your sshd instance as well.

Everything is described in the attached `memfile.c'.




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Date: Sunday 04/01/07 at 15:15  Name: memfile.c  Size: 3kB   By: tschwinge

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=12364>

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