Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262726AbTIAIA3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 04:00:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262736AbTIAIA3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 04:00:29 -0400 Received: from spoolo1.tiscali.be ([62.235.13.210]:25103 "EHLO smtp-out.tiscali.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262726AbTIAIAY (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 04:00:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3F52FCA2.5050500@tiscali.be> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:00:34 +0000 From: Joel Soete User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Matthew Wilcox , Ruediger Scholz , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Security Hole in binfmt_som.c ? References: <3F509BBD.2040007@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de> <20030830131541.GI13467@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1062251389.31150.4.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1062251389.31150.4.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1147 Lines: 39 Alan Cox wrote: >On Sad, 2003-08-30 at 14:15, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > >>On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:42:37PM +0200, Ruediger Scholz wrote: >> >> >>>binfmt_som.c:216:2: #error "Fix security hole before enabling me" >>>What's this message about? >>> >>> >>I don't know. I wish someone would tell me. You'd think they'd have the >>decency to contact the person listed as the author at the top of the file. >> >> > >Actually explanations were posted in the previous discussion on this on >parisc-list. > >Someone has to do the equivalent of the 2.4.22 binfmt_elf changes if >neccessary so that another thread can't change the file handles or >steal the exec fd being passed to the loader. > > > Yes Alan, it was: Sorry Willy I trusted that you read it (My bad next time I will advise you directly) Joel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/