> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:23:25AM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> > Given the obviously poor state of the code in Kevin's parser, I wonder
> > if a carefully crafted message cause cause a buffer overflow and cause
> > him to execute arbitrary code... Running "rm -rf /" in Kevin's head
> > might be a bad thing (or a good thing, depending on who you ask...)
>> don't be silly. i renamed /bin/rm *years* ago.
But did you change the syscall number for unlink(2) and recompile
all your userland? If not, I can always call the syscall directly.
Later,
Kenn
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