Kmem security (was: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ???)

[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of cjc at ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese):
:Allowing any access to /dev/kmem is asking for trouble.
:It's possible to become root on a system which
:has a readable /dev/kmem without too much trouble.

With just read access?  How do you do that?  I can understand
being able to read other people's data, but I really don't know 
how you would use this to become the superuser.  Reading su passwds?
This is much harder in raw mode.


--tom