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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Re: Local root exploit with kmod and modutils > 2.1.121
Date: 16 Nov 2000 18:08:35 -0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200011161908.UAA08671@microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200011161856.VAA03745@ms2.inr.ac.ru>


Hi,

as modprobe (insmod) seems to have POSIX args handling, we should perhaps add "--"
to the modprobe cmdline, in order to stop further args processing, and to avoid
mixing a textual argument with an option.
BTW, it should perhaps be generalized.

Xav


--- linux-2.4-test10/kernel/kmod.c	Tue Sep 26 01:18:55 2000
+++ linux/kernel/kmod.c	Thu Nov 16 19:57:45 2000
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 static int exec_modprobe(void * module_name)
 {
 	static char * envp[] = { "HOME=/", "TERM=linux", "PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin", NULL };
-	char *argv[] = { modprobe_path, "-s", "-k", (char*)module_name, NULL };
+	char *argv[] = { modprobe_path, "-s", "-k", "--", (char*)module_name, NULL };
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = exec_usermodehelper(modprobe_path, argv, envp);


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-16 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011131915240.19775-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
2000-11-13 23:11 ` Local root exploit with kmod and modutils > 2.1.121 Keith Owens
2000-11-16 16:04   ` Alan Cox
2000-11-16 17:05     ` kuznet
2000-11-16 17:19       ` Alan Cox
2000-11-16 17:32         ` kuznet
2000-11-16 18:24           ` Alan Cox
2000-11-16 18:56             ` kuznet
2000-11-16 19:08               ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2000-11-16 20:24     ` Keith Owens
2000-11-16 21:45       ` Alan Cox
2000-11-16 21:21 [PATCH] " Xavier Bestel
2000-11-16 22:00 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-16 22:18   ` H. Peter Anvin

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