Re: [PATCH] zlib double-free bug

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:59:33PM +0100, Martin Hermanowski wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:45:42AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> >>> Removable media?
> >> 
> >> Most if not all removable media are not ment to be used with JFFS2.
> > 
> > Nothing is _meant_ to be exploited either.  Someone could
> > create a cdrom with jffs2 (linux don't demand that cd's use iso9660)
> > with an intent to make trouble.  crc's and such would match the 
> > bad compressed stuff.  Nothing unusual seems to happen, but
> > using the cd installs a back door as the fs uncompresses stuff.
> 
> What about ZISOFS? IIRC the files are compressed with gzip und
> decompressed on the fly.

ZISOFS falls into the same case that 2.5 does.

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