Re: [Bug 720095] Re: vsftpd causes a vmalloc space leak in Lucid

2011-09-07 Thread Stefan Bader
On 07.09.2011 12:16, Alex Bligh wrote: > The released resolution broke a production environment here: See #844185 > > I propose this is instead fixed by disabling it in vsftpd. > The problem is that nobody can say that vsftp was or is the only vector that allows to DOS a system doing something th

Re: [Bug 720095] Re: vsftpd causes a vmalloc space leak in Lucid

2011-06-02 Thread Rachel Greenham
On 02/06/11 14:32, Rachel Greenham wrote: > On 01/06/11 17:08, Stefan Metzmacher wrote: >> Fixing vsftpd looks like a much better fix for this Also presumably disabling it in vsftpd will hurt people who want to use that in an lxc setting without providing an easily-applied solution. -- Rachel

Re: [Bug 720095] Re: vsftpd causes a vmalloc space leak in Lucid

2011-06-02 Thread Rachel Greenham
On 01/06/11 17:08, Stefan Metzmacher wrote: > Fixing vsftpd looks like a much better fix for this It would seem at first sight to be simpler; but presumably the problem was that there are bugs in the implementation in the Lucid kernel (and upstream) that won't necessarily *only* impact vsftpd us

Re: [Bug 720095] Re: vsftpd causes a vmalloc space leak in Lucid

2011-04-16 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Rachel Greenham's message of Sat Apr 16 11:25:10 UTC 2011: > I think I've been experiencing this bug on a production vmware guest > server running Lucid with vsftp being connected to frequently by client > machines. > > The thing is, this bug shows as being "fix committed" - and the