From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:51:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:51:38 -0500 Received: from roc-24-95-203-215.rochester.rr.com ([24.95.203.215]:19719 "EHLO d185fcbd7.rochester.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:51:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 19:51:23 -0500 From: Chris Mason To: Marc Lehmann , 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) Message-ID: <14260000.979087883@tiny> In-Reply-To: <20010110004201.A308@cerebro.laendle> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.6b1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:42:01 AM +0100 Marc Lehmann 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/