Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE

[Chris Mason]

On Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:42:01 AM +0100 Marc Lehmann
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> We are still investigating, but there seems to be a major security problem
> in at least some versions of reiserfs. Since reiserfs is shipped with
> newer versions of SuSE Linux and the problem is too easy to reproduce and
> VERY dangerous I think alerting people to this problem is in order.
> 

Sorry, a quick attempt at reproducing on 2.2.17 and 2.2.19 kernels did not
cause an oops.  Could you please send me a decoded version of the oops to
help track things down?

thanks,
Chris