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[linux-security] Linux-kernel bugs in 2.0.x
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rogier Wolff)
Mon Jul 29 15:08:54 1996
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 10:52:19 +0200 (MET DST)
From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Someone asked wether there were any known bugs in the 2.0.x Linux
kernel. Apart from TCP/IP bugs, I now know of only one. If you read
from memory devices (kmem,mem,zero) or write to the console
(/dev/tty?) no reschedules would take place. You could effectively
hang a system that way. This has been fixed in 2.0.9. 2.0.10 is
out already too.
A presumably complete buglist with respect to networking stuff
is at:
http://www.uk.linux.org/NetNews.html
Thanks go to Alan Cox for all of this info.
Roger.
