Re: local users can panic linux kernel (was: SuSE syslogdadvisory)

[astmail () YAHOO COM (A. Steinmetz)]

To add to Shafik's statement, now all you have to do to is to put a system
under high (log) load for any attack to go possibly unlogged? This leaves
me somewhat sleepless...

--- Shafik Yaghmour <shafik () ACM POLY EDU> wrote:
>       So if you have a high system load it is okay to have some of the
> syslog messages lost? Hmm, I dunno, IMHO it is never okay, I mean why
> should you open up the opportunity at all. You know, security based on
> something being "not so prone to failure" doesn't exactly make me feel
> warm and cozy.
>
> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Jefferson Ogata wrote:
>
> > I think it should be pointed out that datagram messages to a Unix
> domain socket
> > don't suffer the same network load losses that datagram messages
> across an
> > ethernet do. The quality of reception will generally be based purely
> on system
> > load, since an external network is not involved. You won't be losing
> lots of log
> > messages on account of a large file transfer between two other hosts.
> >
> > Therefore, I think reliance on datagram-based syslog to a Unix domain
> socket is
> > not so prone to failure as some other posters have implied.
> >
> > --
> > Jefferson Ogata <jogata () nodc noaa gov> National Oceanographic Data
> Center
> > You can't step into the same river twice. -- Herakleitos
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