Re: [PATCH] zlib double-free bug

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 14:59:07 EST


Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:36:19AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Right, but you don't want someone to insert a removable medium and have
> > the system crash in response.
>
> My understanding from one of dwmw2's earlier posts was that jffs2
> has crc's that would prevent this happening anyway (or at least make
> it nigh on impossible)
>

I doubt that. We're talking about corrupting the kernel VM.

        -hpa

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