Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:25:56 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] ext2: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption |
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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.
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