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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] ext2: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption
    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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