linux-kernel - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <E1IRghZ-0004EL-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:04:45 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	kaber@...sh.net (Patrick McHardy)
Cc:	link@...gy.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code

Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks. I'm not sure either, it would require two concurrent requests
> to be processed, but AFAICS oidentd only uses a single netlink socket.
> Perhaps multiple running instances or something else using the inet_diag
> interface?

Since identd serves requests from the outside world it is
quite possible for two identd instances to run simultaneously
serving two requests.

I'm not familiar with oidentd but this is certainly pidentd
works.

Cheers,
-- 
Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/
Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/