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Re: [Full-disclosure] [btrfs] is vulnerable to a hash-DoS attack
- To: "Pascal Junod (Mailing Lists)" <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] [btrfs] is vulnerable to a hash-DoS attack
- From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:05:13 -0500
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Pascal Junod (Mailing Lists)
<mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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