From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: a.marsman@aYniK.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre7: are security issues solved?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:48:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030723034822.148d8f30.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030723103901.GA2425@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:39:01 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:35:05AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:56:47 +1000
> > Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > If I know your password is 7 characters I have a smaller
> > space of passwords to search to just brute-force it.
>
> Yes but can't you do the same thing with /proc/interrupts or
> /proc/net/dev? Why are we singling out the serial driver?
With the serial procfs thing, we know exactly that it is
characters.
With interrupts and network device statistics, we cannot make
such assumptions making attacks using these facilities much
less likely to be feasible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-23 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-21 20:40 2.4.22-pre7: are security issues solved? Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-22 7:04 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-22 15:02 ` Aschwin Marsman
2003-07-22 15:07 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-07-22 17:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-07-23 9:56 ` Herbert Xu
2003-07-23 10:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 10:39 ` Herbert Xu
2003-07-23 10:48 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-07-23 10:47 ` Herbert Xu
2003-07-23 10:50 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-23 10:59 ` Herbert Xu
2003-07-23 20:16 ` Aurelien Jarno
2003-07-23 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 17:47 ` David Wagner
2003-07-23 11:57 ` Ville Herva
2003-07-23 17:50 ` David Wagner
2003-07-24 9:11 ` Florian Weimer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-23 12:56 John Bradford
2003-07-23 13:10 ` root
2003-07-23 14:08 John Bradford
2003-07-23 15:46 ` Aschwin Marsman
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