From: Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de>
To: Larry Kessler <kessler@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH-RFC] POSIX Event Logging, kernel 2.5.6 & 2.4.18
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:41:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020312224101.GB12952@duron.intern.kubla.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C8E7E08.C3CF4227@us.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C8E7E08.C3CF4227@us.ibm.com>
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:15:36PM -0800, Larry Kessler wrote:
> 2) If the buffer overruns the oldest events are kept, newest
> discarded, and a count of discarded events is reported.
Hmm. That sounds like a possible security problem to me: simply generate a
bunch of harmless messages to fill the buffer and then one can do the nasty
stuff...
Dominik Kubla
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-12 22:15 Larry Kessler
2002-03-12 22:41 ` Dominik Kubla [this message]
2002-03-12 23:02 ` Larry Kessler
2002-03-13 1:10 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-03-13 0:33 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-03-14 1:07 Larry Kessler
2002-03-14 2:32 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-03-14 19:45 ` Brian Beattie
2002-03-15 1:10 ` Larry Kessler
2002-03-15 1:17 Larry Kessler
2002-03-15 17:57 Larry Kessler
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