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From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Markus Gaugusch" <markus@gaugusch.at>,
	"David Pospíšil" <foton2@post.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Security patch for 2.6.2
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:17:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1076436931.4999.5.camel@entropy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402101647.i1AGlvrC006918@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 08:47, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:16:37 +0100, Markus Gaugusch said:
> > On Feb 10, David Pospí¨il <foton2@post.cz> wrote:
> > 
> > > Where can I find security patch for 2.6.2 ?
> > > Problem : look at this site : http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/353217
> > > It is remote root exploit :-(
> > No, it is local root exploit. And the patch is attached to that posting.
> 
> Is the *real* problem here that smbfs doesn't understand the moral
> equivalent of 'mount -o nosuid/nodev/noexec/no-etc'?

No, the real problem is that both SAMBA 3 and Linux 2.6.x support the
CIFS Extensions for Unix and the guy who complained to BUGTRAQ doesn't
get this.

(BTW, nosuid/nodev/noexec are handled by the VFS, not the individual fs
drivers.)


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-10 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-10 16:08 Security patch for 2.6.2 David Pospíšil
2004-02-10 16:16 ` Markus Gaugusch
2004-02-10 16:47   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-10 18:17     ` Nicholas Miell [this message]
     [not found] <1nIMg-5FD-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-02-10 16:54 ` der.eremit

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