Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:19:49 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: thoughts on kernel security issues |
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William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote: >> Most of the local DoS's I'm aware of are memory management -related, >> i.e. user- triggerable proliferation of pinned kernel data structures.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:54:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well. A heck of a lot of the DoS opportunities we've historically seen > involved memory leaks, deadlocks or making the kernel go oops or BUG with > locks held or with kernel memory allocated.
I'd consider those even more severe.
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