Re: Core file anomalies under BSDi 3.0

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@CVS.OPENBSD.ORG)
Fri, 20 Jun 1997 02:59:14 -0600

> A small and neat bug in BSDi 3.x allows people to arbitrarly write files
> with crap for data, but not overwrite them. Like so:

That's a neat "fill up the root partition" denial of service attack.
It probably works in lots of other operating systems.

It doesn't work in OpenBSD.