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Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)
From: Felix von Leitner <leitner () VIM ORG>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:39:58 +0100
Thus spake Christian Zuckschwerdt (Christian.Zuckschwerdt () TRIQ NET):
there are indeed funny things with long filenames:
This may not be a kernel bug after all. The Linux getdents syscall (which is used to implement readdir) is called with a buffer and the size of the buffer, so the libc chooses how large that buffer should be. My diet libc chooses 1024, which should be large enough, but of course isn't, when a file system does not enforce the maximum file name length. In that case, getdents returns EINVAL. Can someone please run strace on ls and see if this is what happens? Felix
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- Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) John Morrison (Jan 09)
- Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Chris Mason (Jan 09)
- Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Vladimir V. Saveliev (Jan 09)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Andreas Ferber (Jan 10)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Mark Glines (Jan 12)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Jack Coates (Jan 12)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Gigi Sullivan (Jan 10)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Christian Zuckschwerdt (Jan 10)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Ryan Russell (Jan 10)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Christian Zuckschwerdt (Jan 10)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Felix von Leitner (Jan 12)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Ryan Russell (Jan 10)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Marc Lehmann (Jan 10)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Ben Greenbaum (Jan 10)
- Re: major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux) Thomas Mangin (Jan 12)