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Major NFS Bugs Found & Being Fixed

Posted by Hemos on from the quashing-the-bugs dept.

mbadolato writes "From an article at kerneltrap.org: On the FreeBSD hacker mailing list, Jordan Hubbard commented on some serious issues with NFS, posting a tool called 'fsx' - originally developed for the NeXT OS - that was ideal for finding them. Matt Dillon was quite impressed by the tool and immediately started playing with it. In very little time, he presented a number of major fixes..."

There's a good collection of the emails here describing some of the fixes that Matt Dillon has made."

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  1. Major NFS bugs found, but hidden from main page? by cpeterso · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    For every little security flaw in each Windows "strain", Slashdot sounds the klaxons and warns of Microsoft's buggy code. But when there is a serious bug in some Unix NFS code, it's hidden in the BSD section or "proof" that the Open Sores security model is just doin' its job..

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    cpeterso