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Re: [btrfs] is vulnerable to a hash-DoS attack

From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:05:13 -0500

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Pascal Junod (Mailing Lists)
<mailinglists () junod info> wrote:

Hello folk,

The btrfs file system, part of the linux kernel, is vulnerable to a
trivial hash-DoS attack. More details can be found here:

http://crypto.junod.info/2012/12/13/hash-dos-and-btrfs/

Kosta's comment was funny as hell: "If only the B-Tree Filesystem had
access to a data structure immune to this… like a B-Tree."

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