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has caused the Debian Bug report #245179,
regarding kernel messages clutter the console
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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.11n-7
Severity: critical
Tags: security
Justification: breaks the whole system
The default settings is that dmesg shows kernel buffer messages on all
consoles. This is nice idea but it renders a whole system unusable in
certain situations:
- bridge interface sends 'device eth0 entered promiscuous mode' and
this message is shown on all consoles. It doesn't reappear too fast,
but is still annoying.
- USB devices, if there are some kernel messages, all consoles are full
of them and render the system unusuable. One can only try to blindly
type. The messages are scrolling all the way on the screen.
- If it comes to some hard swapping and memory is full, messages would
appear and reappear too fast to make anything usable on consoles. If X
is not running, the system is totally unusable.
- There are other reasons why those messages appear.
- An attacker could find a way to invoke such messages appearing too
fast for the user to do anything.
Solution is either to somehow (to me unknown) make a control on which
vt those messages are allowed to appear; or to totally lower the level
of messages appearing for example on the /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh to be
to be dmesg -n1
This thing is especially annoying if installing on a new system, how
can a beginner know how to turn those messages off? They start appearing
fast and sometimes is impossible to write or type anything.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux perlbroker 2.6.4-1-k7 #1 Tue Mar 16 12:28:31 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=hr_HR, LC_CTYPE=hr_HR
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii slang1 1.4.4-7.2 The S-Lang programming library - r
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--- Begin Message ---
This bug is being closed as part of a cleanup of the old bug
reports in the sysvinit package, in an attempt to make it easier
to address the bug reports which actually are fixable. Some
reasons:
- Not a bug and/or it's a patch which will not be applied
- It will not be fixed, ever for various reasons
- Problem is not fixable in sysvinit or not our responsibility
- A better solution has become available in the interim
- No activity or submitter response in over a decade or more
Roger
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