full-disclosure - Re: [btrfs] is vulnerable to a hash-DoS attack

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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:05:13 -0500
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: "Pascal Junod (Mailing Lists)" <mailinglists@...od.info>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: [btrfs] is vulnerable to a hash-DoS attack

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Pascal Junod (Mailing Lists)
<mailinglists@...od.info> wrote:
> Hello folk,
>
> The btrfs file system, part of the linux kernel, is vulnerable to a
> trivial hash-DoS attack. More details can be found here:
>
> http://crypto.junod.info/2012/12/13/hash-dos-and-btrfs/
Kosta's comment was funny as hell: "If only the B-Tree Filesystem had
access to a data structure immune to this… like a B-Tree."

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