Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:05:46 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [patch] printk from userspace |
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:00:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > First of all, only CAP_SYS_ADMIN. As far as spamming the ring buffer, > that's trivial to do today by just sending a bunch of bad network > packets,
Not true, network logging is rate limited.
> or attaching a USB CD-ROM without a disc in the drive (yes, > really... on my wife's laptop it was so bad that unless she unplugged > the CD-ROM syslogd was eating her system alive), or...
Well, that's more of a bug and requires console access anyways.
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