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Subject: Re: /dev/kmem
From: Sridhar (omicronPES.EDU)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 13:24:47 CDT

hi
        why didnt u try `mke2fs /dev/mem` or mke2fs /dev/kmem ? ;)
regards
cheedu

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, max wrote:

> Hi
> I was playing with my linux, and after reading recent bugtraq posting about
> a klogd format bug, i decided to echo different things into different parts
> of my system, and i came across something interesting.
> if i do 'echo "%2000d" > /dev/kmem' (that specific string is taken from
> bugtraq post on format string bug in klogd) and then look at my syslog i get
> the following (excuse so much garbage : )
>
>
> what is this? what is happening? would i get this no matter what i try to
> cat into /dev/kmem, or was this string special in some way? i was not able
> to reproduce this after trying this only once, with the same, or any other
> string echoed into kmem. i did not reboot my machine however between tests,
> but i will, and try the same.
> im running suse6.3 2.2.16, 96RAM pentium200MMX.
>
> thanks for any clues.
> max
> 

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