From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: local root exploit confirmed in 2.6.10: Linux 2.6 Kernel Capability LSM Module Local Privilege Elevation
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:25:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041229102532.GB9926@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1104268915.20714.20.camel@krustophenia.net>
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:21:55PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> Frank Barknecht pointed this out on linux-audio-dev, it's a horrible
> bug, I confirmed it in 2.6.10, and have not seen it mentioned on the
> list.
Although this sucks, it should be pointed out that it only grants root to
users able to force the loading of a certain module, aka 'root'.
Modules have always been free to give root capabilities to all users. We
don't usually ship these though :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-29 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-28 21:21 Lee Revell
2004-12-28 21:53 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-29 10:25 ` bert hubert [this message]
2004-12-29 10:32 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-29 14:01 ` Serge E. Hallyn
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