(OT) ReiserFS security bug (fwd)

[Brian Densmore]

Interesting!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Rathbun [mailto:randy at randyrathbun.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:23 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: (OT) ReiserFS security bug (fwd)
> 
> 
> Anyone heard anything about this?
>... 

Anyone know who this guy is?
> From: Frank Carmickle <frankiec at braille.uwo.ca>
> Reply-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: (OT) ReiserFS security bug
> 
> major security bug in reiserfs (may affect SuSE Linux)
> 
...
Kind of down on reiserfs isn't he? What other similar bugs?
> While this individual bug might be easy to fix, we believe that other,
> similar bugs should be easy to find so reiserfs should not be 
> trusted (it
> shouldn't be trusted to full user access for other reasons 
> anyway, but it
> is still widely used).
> 
...

Brian