From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
debian-security@lists.debian.org, Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Ptrace patch for 2.4.x BREAKS kill() 2 interesting effects for .pid and dot locking? (was Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25)
Date: 20 Mar 2003 01:39:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1048124344.708.15.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048113787.23160.21.camel@luther>
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 22:43, Matthew Grant wrote:
> I have been just digging harder, and the vulnerability is only
> exploitable if you are using the kernel auto module loader, so compile
Not the case in some situations
> Could I please say this to the kernel developers, please fix it
> properly!
I take patches.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-19 20:09 Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25 Matthew Grant
2003-03-19 21:34 ` Matthew Grant
2003-03-19 22:43 ` Ptrace patch for 2.4.x BREAKS kill() 2 interesting effects for .pid and dot locking? (was Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25) Matthew Grant
2003-03-19 23:51 ` Matthew Grant
2003-03-20 1:39 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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