On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 03:33:31PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
Had some spare time today and wanted to fix this issue.
The attached patch instruments nss and pam clients to use a pthread
mutex to prevent multiple threads from stomping on each other.
The patch is quite simple and basic
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:46:02 +0100
Sumit Bose sb...@redhat.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 03:33:31PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
Had some spare time today and wanted to fix this issue.
The attached patch instruments nss and pam clients to use a pthread
mutex to prevent multiple
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:46:02 +0100
Sumit Bose sb...@redhat.com wrote:
Protecting a whole PAM task like authentication with a mutex can lead
to DOS situation when a user logs into a threaded application with his
username but forgets to enter his password immediately because the
phone is
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:23:01AM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:46:02 +0100
Sumit Bose sb...@redhat.com wrote:
Protecting a whole PAM task like authentication with a mutex can lead
to DOS situation when a user logs into a threaded application with his
username but
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:25:38 +0100
Sumit Bose sb...@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:23:01AM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:46:02 +0100
Sumit Bose sb...@redhat.com wrote:
Protecting a whole PAM task like authentication with a mutex can
lead to DOS
Had some spare time today and wanted to fix this issue.
The attached patch instruments nss and pam clients to use a pthread
mutex to prevent multiple threads from stomping on each other.
The patch is quite simple and basic testing seem to show no issues.
It may be worth of back-porting to older
