Uh, heh.  How can you rm -rf $HOME/dead.letter while pine is open?


Chris Byrnes - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JEAH Communications, LLC - "Fast.  Dedicated."

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Jonathan Slivko wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just wrote a little shell script that, on the machine I tested
> it on, crashed the box and forced a reboot. The contents of the
> script was:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> pine -i
> rm -rf $HOME/dead.letter
>
> Thats the whole script. I don't see how something like that could
> cause a kernel to crash. Would anyone mind trying to replicate
> this on a test box. If it's a security issue, i'll forward it to
> security when I get more information.
>
> -- Jonathan
>
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