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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:08:20 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>
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To: Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>,
       Neela Syam Kolli <megaraidlinux@lsi.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] megaraid_sas: remove sysfs dbg_lvl world writeable
 permissions
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On 12/02/2009 11:17 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> From: Bryn M. Reeves<bmr@redhat.com>
>
> /sys/bus/pci/drivers/megaraid_sas/poll_mode_io defaults to being
> world-writable, which seems bad (letting any user affect kernel driver
> behavior).
>
> This turns off group and user write permissions, so that on typical
> production systems only root can write to it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bryn M. Reeves<bmr@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Casey Dahlin<cdahlin@redhat.com>

CC: Eugene Teo <eteo@redhat.com>

The subject should read: megaraid_sas: remove poll_mode_io world 
writeable permissions instead, and this has been assigned with 
CVE-2009-3939.

Thanks, Eugene
-- 
Eugene Teo / Red Hat Security Response Team
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