On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:36:31 -0400 (EDT) Jonathan S <js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tim Newsham is right that there is an overflow present, but his exploit > doesn't work (for me - it may work fine on his PDP-11 or emu). A bus > error is what happens, which is a good sign that the return address needs > to be changed. It sucks that there aren't very many tools in UnixV7, > including text editors. > > Here's the log of me executing the code he posted (I'll probably have it > fixed so it works in 5 minutes, with any luck): This could be induced by a bad grounding of the main console. It happened to me a few times when I've touched on of the panels. You get a slight jolt and then a few error messages when the hard drive unit is activated. This is slightly annoying but doesn't lead to a real security problem for the PDP-11. In my case Apache crashes, but I didn't find any proofs of any files tempered with.
