[OpenAFS] Attacks against AFS lead to crashing machines

Jimmy Engelbrecht jimmy@e.kth.se
07 Jun 2002 11:38:15 +0200


Jan Tax <tax@unc.edu> writes:

> We have had system crashes on 3 of our AIX 4.3.3 AFS fileserver machines,
> the most recent 1/2-hour ago.  All are running IBM/Transarc version 3.6
> build 2.32, so there still appears to be a bug that afscrawler tickles.

I am sorry.

My code does trigger a memmory leak in the kernel, the crash can appear
days later.  There have been no more scannings since the first problems
were reported.

/Jimmy