Re: IRIX XFS filesystem denial of service attack

From: Eric Sandeen (sandeenat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 14:40:00 PDT

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hi HD - 

I don't believe that Linux is affected.  I've been told that the Linux
I/O path was written specifically to avoid this problem, and I have run
some test cases from our original bug report, and did not see the
described behavior.  I'll look a bit more and reply when I know for
sure.

-Eric

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 18:32, H D Moore wrote:
> Does this vulnerability affect the Linux XFS port? The XFS page has no 
> information about this or whether there is a fix available:

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeenat_private   SGI, Inc.

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