[OpenAFS] Re: Attacks against AFS lead to crashing machines

[Todd_DeSantis@transarc.com]

Hi -

> We just tested our code on Openafs 1.2.3 on IRIX, the machine
> crashed, we are now analyzing the coredump.
>
> However this one seems to be another bug in the code. Which means my
> "afscrawler" triggers at least 2 different bugs.
>
> We were not able to trigger the bug on Solaris 8 running openafs
> 1.2.2.

And Jan Tax of UNC also mentions that several of his AIX 4.3.3
fileserver machines running AFS 3.6 Build 2.32 also crashed, we are
continuing to look into the code base to see where other bugs could be
lingering.

We will work with Jimmy and hopefully get this issue straightened out
quickly.

Thanks

Todd