From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
To: Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org>
Cc: Torsten.Duwe@caldera.de, Francis Galiegue <fg@mandrakesoft.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modprobe local root exploit
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:35:29 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200011140135.eAE1ZTD11785@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org> of "Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:56:40 -0000." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011131655430.22139-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org> said:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> > >>>>> "Francis" == Francis Galiegue <fg@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
> >
> > >> + if ((*p & 0xdf) >= 'a' && (*p & 0xdf) <= 'z') continue;
> >
> > Francis> Just in case... Some modules have uppercase letters too :)
> >
> > That's what the &0xdf is intended for...
> Code in a security sensitive area needs to be crystal clear.
Nodz!
> What's wrong with isalnum() ?
Too efficient? ;)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-14 3:05 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 [this message]
2000-11-13 18:11 ` Torsten Duwe
2000-11-14 5:02 ` Peter Samuelson
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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