From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jan 20 13: 0: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8060715392; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:59:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@innu.org) Received: from innu.org (bsg-ma1a-66.ix.netcom.com [209.110.248.66]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18845; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:59:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3887BD39.2FE8E40A@innu.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:58:18 -0500 From: Sean Trifero X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, security-officer@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bugtraq posts: stream.c - new FreeBSD exploit? References: <200001202035.MAA54949@sivka.rdy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is on a Linux 2.2.14 system. /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c: panic("Free list empty"); Sean Trifero Dima Ruban wrote: > Mike Tancsa writes: > > > > Can anyone confirm the bugtraq posting ? Are the freebsd folks working on > > a fix ? If so, what versions are effected ? > > I personaly haven't seen the code in question, but I've heard that > this problem is not FreeBSD specific (Linux,Solaris,OpenBSD,etc etc etc > are all affected). And due to the nature of the problem it won't be easy to > fix it. > > > ---Mike > > > > >The only log that he could provide was this one: > > > > > >---snip--- > > > > > >syslog:Jan 18 12:30:36 x kernel: Kernel panic: Free list empty > > > > > >---snip--- > > > > > >One thing of note: he also stated this happened on non-freebsd systems, > > >which is contrary to what the other person said, who was "under the > > >impression it was freebsd specific." > > > > > >I have the source, which I'm not going to post for 2-3 days (give time for > > >fbsd to work on the fix). If it isn't out before the 21st, I'll post it up. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > > Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net > > Sentex Communications www.sentex.net > > Cambridge, Ontario Canada > > > > -- dima > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message