Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:30:14 -0700 | From | Eric Sandeen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] ext2: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:32:50 -0400 > "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote: > >> From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> >> To: akpm@linux-foundation.org >> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> >> Subject: [PATCH 3/4] ext2: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption >> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:32:50 -0400 >> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.6.1.205.ge2c7.dirty >> >> Note: some people thinks this represents a security bug, since it >> might make the system go away while it is printing a large number of >> console messages, especially if a serial console is involved. Hence, >> it has been assigned CVE-2008-3528, but it requires that the attacker >> either has physical access to your machine to insert a USB disk with a >> corrupted filesystem image (at which point why not just hit the power >> button), or is otherwise able to convince the system administrator to >> mount an arbitrary filesystem image (at which point why not just >> include a setuid shell or world-writable hard disk device file or some >> such). Me, I think they're just being silly. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> >> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> >> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org >> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> > > This patch was purportedly authored by yourself, but I'm going to > assume that it was authored by Eric.
It was, after some discussion w/ Ted & Andreas.
Also just FWIW I'm also in the "as a security issue this is a bit silly" camp ;)
Thanks, -Eric
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