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From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, <fs@FreeBSD.ORG>
References: <20010723202526.B96630@xor.obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: [viro@math.psu.edu: Locally exploitable races in OpenBSD VFS]
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 23:29:39 -0400
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> Has anyone looked at whether these apply to us?
>
> Kris

> > ----- Forwarded message from Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> -----
> >
> >
> > [ snip ]
> > ... Moreover, the same bugs had been fixed in FreeBSD half a year ago.
...
> >

Does that answer your question?  I took a brief look through the source
files mentioned, but am not familiar enough with it to agree or disagree,
although it appears significantly different than the OpenBSD code, and would
appear to avoid race conditions.

--
Matt Emmerton




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