From: Sandip Bhattacharya <subscriptions@sandipb.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ram device not initialised to zero in 2.4.8
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 05:23:06 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010824052306.A3157@bigfoot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108232153.XAA06231@xilofon.it.uc3m.es>
In-Reply-To: <200108232153.XAA06231@xilofon.it.uc3m.es>; from ptb@it.uc3m.es on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:53:43PM +0200
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:53:43PM +0200, Peter T. Breuer merrily said:
> I don't see what harm it does, but the ram devices are full of
> interesting data if you read them after setting them up. Either
> this is a security hole waiting to happen, or somebody is being
> very inventive with the fill ...
Well. It would probably be the first possibility. I tried out what you
said, and it showed me the contents of a mail which I had just sent
out ...
- Sandip
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2001-08-23 21:53 Peter T. Breuer
2001-08-23 23:53 ` Sandip Bhattacharya [this message]
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