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Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Mason)
Tue Jan 9 21:16:22 2001
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:51:23 -0500
Reply-To: Chris Mason <mason@SUSE.COM>
From: Chris Mason <mason@SUSE.COM>
X-To: Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
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On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:42:01 AM +0100 Marc Lehmann
<pcg@goof.com> wrote:
> We are still investigating, but there seems to be a major security problem
> in at least some versions of reiserfs. Since reiserfs is shipped with
> newer versions of SuSE Linux and the problem is too easy to reproduce and
> VERY dangerous I think alerting people to this problem is in order.
>
Sorry, a quick attempt at reproducing on 2.2.17 and 2.2.19 kernels did not
cause an oops. Could you please send me a decoded version of the oops to
help track things down?
thanks,
Chris
