From: Gabor MICSKO <gmicsko@szintezis.hu>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix prctl privilege escalation (CVE-2006-2451)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:04:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152720258.4457.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152702720.14173.9.camel@localhost>
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Already fixed since 07/06/2006:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.17.y.git;a=commit;h=0af184bb9f80edfbb94de46cb52e9592e5a547b0
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.17.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=0af184bb9f80edfbb94de46cb52e9592e5a547b0;hp=52cbb7b78994ea3799f1bbb8c03bce1e2f72a271
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 13:12 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> attached is the fix with full explanation for CVE-2006-2451. It fixes a
> possible privilege escalation through the prctl() system call.
>
> I also put Michael Kerrisk on CC, because the manual page of prctl()
> needs adjustment. The value 2 for the PR_SET_DUMPABLE flag is no longer
> valid after this patch. The only way to get root-owned core dumps is
> through /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable and the manual page should reflect
> that.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
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2006-07-12 11:12 Fix prctl privilege escalation (CVE-2006-2451) Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-12 16:04 ` Gabor MICSKO [this message]
2006-07-12 16:05 ` Marcel Holtmann
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