Journal Xcrap's Journal: LINUX EXPLOIT! 2
Ive put this in my signiture too, this is something that linux lusers DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW!
yes > /dev/mem
It crahses linux without root access! Its a huge exploit!
How it works
yes is a crapflood tool. It crap floods yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to the stdout.
By using > we direct it to /dev/mem which is the memory. Your memory will become overwritten with Y's! Thus crashing the system!
Use this information to your knowledge! Its the TOP SECRET INFORMATION THAT THEY DON'T WAN'T YOU TO KNOW!
yes >
It crahses linux without root access! Its a huge exploit!
How it works
yes is a crapflood tool. It crap floods yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to the stdout.
By using > we direct it to
Use this information to your knowledge! Its the TOP SECRET INFORMATION THAT THEY DON'T WAN'T YOU TO KNOW!
Funny because its not true... (Score:2, Informative)
I remember back when shell accounts were commonly used, on most UNIX systems people would have global write access enabled on their
Also the utmp file which lists who is online was writable allowing you to hide the fact that you're online and do other silly things like add fake users appear online (of course doing a ps -aux would always reveal the truth). This stuff definitely worked on SunOS boxes, I don't remember what other flavors of UNIX this might've worked on.
Re:Funny because its not true... (Score:1)