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Re: CVE Exploit



On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:08:29PM CET, Mike! <niblett@gmail.com> said:
> On 03/11/2011 04:06 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> >On 3/11/2011 9:04 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> >>On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:42:17AM -0500, hans wrote:
> >>>rm / -rf worked fine last time I tried it on a VM as an experiment.
> >>It was fixed in coreutils 6.2 [2006-09-18].
> >>
> >
> >Subjective fix. It can still destroy your system, it can still delete
> >critical files, just not certain critical files.
> >We've done it before too.
> >
> >
> perhaps dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/root is a better solution?

if=/dev/urandom would be more fun, whereas /dev/random might stop
before doing too much damage, but restart when any action is done.

The latest case might be fun to see...
 


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