From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out.tiscali.be (spoolo1.tiscali.be [62.235.13.210]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D2A4830 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 02:00:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3F52FCA2.5050500@tiscali.be> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:00:34 +0000 From: Joel Soete 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 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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