Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 23:58:03 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [patch] printk from userspace |
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:18:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The patch allows userspace to issue printk's, via sys_syslog():
This is an incredibly bad idea. It has security hole written all over it. Any user can now spam the kernel's log ringbuffer and overrun potentially important messages.
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