From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jun 2 9: 9:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3581D37BFFC for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:09:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12xrLU-0005Vz-00; Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:18:40 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12xrLT-0002K4-00; Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:18:39 +0100 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:18:39 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: User Datagram Protocol Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) Message-ID: <20000602141839.G99925@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000602140906.I70438@closed-networks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000602140906.I70438@closed-networks.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org User Datagram Protocol wrote: > Apologies if this issue was posted to any other lists, but it came my way, > I am not currently on bugtraq due to some mail issues, and it looks like > something we should be aware of (albeit really a quality of implementation > issue that gets hit during times of high load - like something else I have > in the pipeline. Heh.) This was posted on freebsd-hackers, it looks like the code below was taken verbatim from there. Matt Dillon said he'll look at it this weekend. Not long now... I haven't seen it on Bugtraq, though I may have missed it. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message