From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:03:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:03:21 -0400 Received: from venus.it.swin.edu.au ([136.186.5.30]:18440 "EHLO venus.it.swin.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 03:03:02 -0400 Message-ID: <3BD7B7FE.D8949E3E@it.swin.edu.au> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:58:06 +1000 From: John Newbigin Reply-To: jn@it.swin.edu.au Organization: Swinburne University of Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: applying patches to running kernels Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have created a patch which protects against the suid & ptrace problem. The patch is a kernel module which you can load into a running kernel without the need to reboot. It is just a concept at the moment (although it appears to work) but I hope that it might sparc some intrest in a project devoted to simalar kinds of 'hot' fixes. The module code and short description can be found here http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/kernel.htm Please cc me in any replies. John. -- Information Technology Innovation Group Swinburne University. Melbourne, Australia http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn