[25087] in bugtraq
Re: IRIX XFS filesystem denial of service attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Sandeen)
Tue Apr 16 19:50:29 2002
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
To: H D Moore <sflist@digitaloffense.net>
Cc: agent99@sgi.com, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
In-Reply-To: <200204151832.38497.sflist@digitaloffense.net>
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Date: 16 Apr 2002 16:40:00 -0500
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hi HD -
I don't believe that Linux is affected. I've been told that the Linux
I/O path was written specifically to avoid this problem, and I have run
some test cases from our original bug report, and did not see the
described behavior. I'll look a bit more and reply when I know for
sure.
-Eric
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 18:32, H D Moore wrote:
> Does this vulnerability affect the Linux XFS port? The XFS page has no
> information about this or whether there is a fix available:
--
Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@sgi.com SGI, Inc.
