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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zlib double-free bug
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:14:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020319201427.K19346@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15510.25987.233438.112897@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203191044150.26226-100000@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> <a77umb$t3s$1@cesium.transmeta.com>

 > > For the record - it's not worth bothering with fs/jffs2/zlib.c; if they 
 > > can corrupt your file system on the medium, why bother with cracking zlib? 
 > Removable media?

 If attacker has physical access to the media, there are far simpler
 ways of corrupting it than zlib exploitation. 8-)

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-19 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-18 10:57 [PATCH] zlib double-free bug Paul Mackerras
2002-03-18 14:49 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-03-18 15:15   ` Tom Rini
2002-03-18 16:36   ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-18 22:09     ` Paul Mackerras
2002-03-19 10:45       ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-19 13:53         ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-19 18:06         ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-19 19:14           ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-03-19 19:36             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-19 19:50               ` Dave Jones
2002-03-19 19:59                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-19 20:09                   ` Dave Jones
2002-03-19 20:35           ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-03-20  9:45             ` Helge Hafting
2002-03-20 14:45               ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-03-21 20:14                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-21 21:03                   ` Tom Rini
2002-03-21 21:21                     ` Tom Rini
2002-03-21 22:13                     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-22  0:06                       ` Corey Minyard
2002-03-22  7:26                         ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-20 15:59               ` Martin Hermanowski
2002-03-20 16:17                 ` Tom Rini
2002-03-19  5:01 ` Paul Mackerras

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