Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:41:41 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) |
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:47:17AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > Chris, I seriously suspect that it's not that simple (read: trace is a > BS). 0x20b is just too large for filldir(). [..] > and we don't trigger them... Fsck knows. copy_to_user() and put_user() should > not be able to screw the kernel stack.
That's what I said Chris yesterday.
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