Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 23:29:39 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, <fs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [viro@math.psu.edu: Locally exploitable races in OpenBSD VFS] Message-ID: <002b01c113f0$df8e7aa0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20010723202526.B96630@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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