Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:41:01 +0100 | | From | Dominik Kubla <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH-RFC] POSIX Event Logging, kernel 2.5.6 & 2.4.18 |
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:15:36PM -0800, Larry Kessler wrote: > 2) If the buffer overruns the oldest events are kept, newest > discarded, and a count of discarded events is reported.
Hmm. That sounds like a possible security problem to me: simply generate a bunch of harmless messages to fill the buffer and then one can do the nasty stuff...
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