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Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:18:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > The patch allows userspace to issue printk's, via sys_syslog(): > > This is an incredibly bad idea. It has security hole written all over it. > Any user can now spam the kernel's log ringbuffer and overrun potentially > important messages. > It requires root. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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