Re: Possible syslogd DoS ?

["VeNoMouS" <venom () phreaker net>]

on my last post, i failed to realise that the code was actally code dumping
----- Original Message -----
From: Petr Baudis <pasky () pasky ji cz>
To: <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 6:09 AM
Subject: Possible syslogd DoS ?


> Hello,
>   I just recently came on a thought (thanks to Marek Jaros) of possible
> DoS of syslogd. It uses /dev/log for receiving log messages, which has
> mode 0666 on most linuxes. It should be ok, as many non-root applications
> should be allowed to log things etc.
>   But imagine that you will send a lot of very long messages there,
different
> everytime in order not to get stripped into kinda 'message repeated x
times'.
> In this way, you can imho flood syslogd successfully, possibly filling
whole
> partition where /var/log resides, regardless to your quota settings on
> the machine!
>   Then, if /var/log is not on separate partition, the whole system can get
> into serious problems, and especially, further events won't be obviously
> logged, so you can do evil things there happily and nobody will know about
it.
>   Discussion? Something i didn't take into account? Possible solutions?
>
> --
>
> Petr "Pasky" Baudis
>                                                                        .
>         n = ((n >>  1) & 0x55555555) | ((n <<  1) & 0xaaaaaaaa);
>         n = ((n >>  2) & 0x33333333) | ((n <<  2) & 0xcccccccc);
>         n = ((n >>  4) & 0x0f0f0f0f) | ((n <<  4) & 0xf0f0f0f0);
>         n = ((n >>  8) & 0x00ff00ff) | ((n <<  8) & 0xff00ff00);
>         n = ((n >> 16) & 0x0000ffff) | ((n << 16) & 0xffff0000);
>                 -- C code which reverses the bits in a word.
>                                                                        .
> My public PGP key is on: http://pasky.ji.cz/~pasky/pubkey.txt
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