Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 1999 21:46:06 -0700 (MST) | From | Dan Burcaw <> | Subject | 2.2.0 SECURITY |
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There is a bug that works only on the 2.2.0 kernel that will allow root and non-root users to crash the machine (the system reboots).
To replicate this bug do following:
Take any core file, and as normal user or root run: ldd core
The machine will reboot, saying that it cannot get execution permissions for ./core
As far as I can tell, this problem only affects x86 machines running 2.2.0. I know that PPC is not affected.
Note: This problem does not occur in kernels before 2.2.0, and is apparently fixed in 2.2.0ac1.
Thanks to Gennady Gurov (gurov@frii.com) for discovering this problem.
Dan
Terra Firma Design & Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
voice (970) 416-9821 in Fort Collins email dburcaw@terraplex.com website http://www.terraplex.com/
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