Denial-of-Service Attack Found In Btrfs File-System 210
An anonymous reader writes "It's been found that the Btrfs file-system is vulnerable to a Hash-DOS attack, a denial-of-service attack caused by hash collisions within the file-system. Two DOS attack vectors were uncovered by Pascal Junod that he described as causing astonishing and unexpected success. It's hoped that the security vulnerability will be fixed for the next Linux kernel release." The article points out that these exploits require local access.
Who ported btrfs to DOS? (Score:5, Funny)
and should we give him a medal or lynch him?
Re:Who ported btrfs to DOS? (Score:5, Funny)
Do I have to choose? Can I hang a medal on him, and then hang him? I'll make the medal 20 pounds to speed up the lynching.
Requires local access (Score:5, Funny)
no more dangerous than a fork bomb or filling up /tmp or trying to compile open office.
Re:Nice! (Score:3, Funny)
Words, they mean nothing! Take 'rarely' for example, who gives a shit, I'll read it as 'never' same thing.
Re:Who ported btrfs to DOS? (Score:3, Funny)