On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 1:04 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:29:55 +0300
>
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> >> + if (country_ie_len < 6) {
>> >> >> + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: country information element shorter (%d)"
>> >> >> + " than expected.\n", __func__, country_ie_len);
>> >> >
>> >> > Remotely exploitable security bug.
>> >
>> >> Please explain,
>> >
>> > Sending broken frames will fill the disk.
>>
>> I see thanks (yeah, distors doesn't make separate log partitions as default)
>
> How distros do their partitioning is neither here not there. And even
> if they make a seperate log partition, that means it's still exploitable
> in that you will no longer get the other non-spam log messages that might
> be important to know about.
>
> Any kernel log message triggerable remotely without any kind of rate
> limiting is a bug.
Will keep in mind
Thanks
Tomas
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