Re: shouldn't a non-privileged malformed sprintf crashes the kernel

2013-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 17 February 2013, Toralf Förster wrote: >This is the 2nd time in a row that a stable kernel (3.7.8 currently) >crashes in such a way that even the sys-rq key doesn't work any longer. >Found nothing in the log. The screen shot is here [1]. First time this >issue was reported in [2]. > >The

Re: shouldn't a non-privileged malformed sprintf crashes the kernel

2013-02-17 Thread richard -rw- weinberger
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Toralf Förster wrote: > This is the 2nd time in a row that a stable kernel (3.7.8 currently) crashes > in such a way > that even the sys-rq key doesn't work any longer. > Found nothing in the log. The screen shot is here [1]. First time this issue > was reported

shouldn't a non-privileged malformed sprintf crashes the kernel

2013-02-17 Thread Toralf Förster
This is the 2nd time in a row that a stable kernel (3.7.8 currently) crashes in such a way that even the sys-rq key doesn't work any longer. Found nothing in the log. The screen shot is here [1]. First time this issue was reported in [2]. The bug seems to be triggered by the BOINC client - I'm r