Bug 20550 - root can crash system using sysreport
Summary: root can crash system using sysreport
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sysreport
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Preston Brown
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-11-09 00:57 UTC by Victor J. Orlikowski
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-11-09 00:57:18 UTC
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Description Victor J. Orlikowski 2000-11-09 00:57:16 UTC 
Sysreport can be used to crash the system by root users.
It performs a cp -P -R (using catiffile) on /proc/bus,
which causes some PCI devices to hang the machine.
Comment 1 Wil Harris 2000-11-09 16:05:47 UTC 
According to Alan "This is known. If you ask lspci to scan all the registers
some cards may lock up and die . Not a bug." 

I have built a work around in sysreport-1.1-2.5 that gets by this issue by doing
an lspci -vn.
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