Subject: Exec header kernel panic A local user can cause a kernel panic using a specially crafted binary. The kernel will attempt to allocate too much memory and panic. The problem was reported by Georgi Guninski, see also http://www.guninski.com/msuxobsd1.html A fix has been committed to 3.3 and 3.4 -stable branches. Patches are also available at ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.4/common/005_exec.patch and ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.3/common/010_exec.patch -- ask not what you can do for your country ask what your country did to you