full-disclosure - OpenBSD kernel panic, yet still *BSD much better than windows

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From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
Subject: OpenBSD kernel panic, yet still *BSD much
 better than windows

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:13:15 +0200
Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com> wrote:

> By executing a specially crafted binary it is possible to cause kernel
> panic on at least OpenBSD 3.3 and 2.8.
> 

After playing with the obsd kernel debugger i am not sure this is not exploitable.
modified binaries crash at different places which don't seem related to writing to (void *)0.

georgi