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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
To: Torsten.Duwe@caldera.de
Cc: Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modprobe local root exploit
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:02:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001113230210.F18203@wire.cadcamlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14864.6812.849398.988598@ns.caldera.de> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011131655430.22139-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> <14864.12007.216381.254700@ns.caldera.de>
In-Reply-To: <14864.12007.216381.254700@ns.caldera.de>; from duwe@caldera.de on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 07:11:51PM +0100


[Torsten Duwe]
> +	for (p = module_name; *p; p++)
> +	{
> +	  if (isalnum(*p) || *p == '_' || *p == '-')
> +	    continue;
> +
> +	  return -EINVAL;
> +	}

I think you just broke at least some versions of devfs.  I don't
remember if the feature is still around, but I know it *used* to be
possible to request_module("/dev/foobar"), which requires '/' in the
name.

Peter
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-14  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-13 14:37 Gregory Maxwell
2000-11-13 16:26 ` Torsten Duwe
2000-11-13 16:44   ` Francis Galiegue
2000-11-13 16:45   ` Torsten Duwe
2000-11-13 16:56     ` Chris Evans
2000-11-13 17:21       ` Jan Dvorak
2000-11-14  1:35       ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-13 18:11     ` Torsten Duwe
2000-11-14  5:02       ` Peter Samuelson [this message]
2000-11-14  5:50         ` Keith Owens
2000-11-14  9:19           ` Florian Weimer
2000-11-14 10:42           ` Malcolm Beattie
2000-11-14 10:54             ` Jakub Jelinek
2000-11-14 11:58               ` Chris Evans
2000-11-14 10:58             ` Keith Owens
2000-11-14 12:28       ` Nick Holloway
2000-11-14 14:01       ` David Woodhouse
2000-11-13 19:46     ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-14 11:29       ` Daniel Phillips
2000-11-14 14:23         ` Daniel Phillips
2000-11-14 16:25         ` David Relson
2000-11-15  4:09         ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-16  5:22     ` Alan Cox
2000-11-16  6:04       ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-16  6:14         ` Keith Owens
2000-11-16  6:16           ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-16 14:12     ` Torsten Duwe
2000-11-16 15:07       ` Alan Cox

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