[Info-vax] HP OpenVMS, local Denial of Service - HP Security Bulletin

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In article <4f91b9cb$0$19892$c3e8da3$12bcf670 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>Jeff Goodwin wrote:
>
>> I would hope that HP would not be releasing information on how 
>> non-privileged users could easily crash systems.
>
>
>Now that patches are only for customers on paid support, then it is to
>HP's advantage to publish the vulnerability. Those who aren't paying for
>support will see their system crash all the time because of users
>issuing that command.
>
>
>Saying that it was related to SET.EXE and causes system to crash  would
>have been enough in my opinion. This tells you it is a command available
>to everyone, that it is not internet related and not really a "denial of
>service" type of attack.

The documentation on this called it a "local" DoS.

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