public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>,
	BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 19:51:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14260000.979087883@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010110004201.A308@cerebro.laendle>



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
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-10  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-09 23:42 major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Marc Lehmann
2001-01-10  0:43 ` [reiserfs-list] " John Morrison
2001-01-10  0:51 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2001-01-10  0:56 ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2001-01-10 13:08   ` Gnea
2001-01-10  6:02 ` [BUGTRAQ] " John H. Robinson, IV
2001-01-10 11:03 ` [reiserfs-list] " Dirk Mueller
     [not found] <20010110023208.B296@cerebro.laendle>
2001-01-10  2:23 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-10  4:43   ` David Ford
2001-01-10  5:47   ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-10 15:48     ` Chris Mason
2001-01-10 17:38       ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-10 18:48         ` Chris Mason
2001-01-11  0:47           ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-10 16:41     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-10 16:02   ` Vladimir V. Saveliev
2001-01-10 16:09     ` Chris Mason
2001-01-10 17:03     ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-10 17:11       ` Stefan Traby
2001-01-10  2:40 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-11 11:05   ` Hans Reiser

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=14260000.979087883@tiny \
    --to=mason@suse.com \
    --cc=BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=pcg@goof.com \
    --cc=reiserfs-list@namesys.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox