[vs at NAMESYS.BOTIK.RU: Re: [reiserfs-list] major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)]

[Sotiris Tsimbonis]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Kostas Papadakis wrote:
> to parakato to stelno me kathe epifilaksi
> > Basically, you do:
> > mkdir "$(perl -e 'print "x" x 768')"
> > I.e. create a very long directory. The name doesn't seem to be of
> > relevance (we found this out by doing mkdir "$(cat /etc/hosts)" for other
> > tests). This works.  The next ls (or echo *) command will segfault and the
> > kernel oopses. all following accesses to the volume in question will oops
> > and hang the process, even afetr a reboot.

Ta epomena postings elegan oti polys kosmos de mporei na to kanei
reproduce pantws.. Opote, anameinate sto akoustiko sas :)

Sotiris.