. Changed SOCK_STREAM to SOCK_DGRAM in syslog.c
. klogd will only change the console log level if `-c' is supplied
. syslogd.c by Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Um, if the directory is invalid, the bind() call in
create_unix_socket fails. Without the return -1, we return the
invalid fd that we just closed. When syslogd then starts
listening, select goes into a hard loop getting EBADF, IIRC.
. klogd.c by Troels Walsted Hansen <troels@thule.no>
I found a bug in the sysklogd package version 1.4. When it
encounters a zero byte in the kernel logging output, the text
parser enters a busy loop. I came upon it when the 3c59x driver
from kernel 2.4.0 started outputting two zero bytes for the product
code of my laptop's 3Com card. It could be argued that the kernel
should never output zero bytes in the logging info, but obviously
that will happen from time to time.
I fear this bug might be considered a security issue as well, if
the kernel can be coerced to output a zero byte somehow, all kernel
logging will stop.
Wolfgang Oertl <Wolfgang.Oertl@uibk.ac.at> had a similar bugfix
idea
. klogd.c by Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
Additionally, the patch prevents LogLine from being invoked with a
negative counter as an argument.
