From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: tim@parrswood.manchester.sch.uk (Tim Fletcher)
Cc: phillips@innominate.de (Daniel Phillips),
Shawn.Starr@Home.net (Shawn Starr),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:49:10 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101251149.f0PBnB206123@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101241803290.30141-100000@pine.parrswood.manchester.sch.uk> from "Tim Fletcher" at Jan 24, 2001 06:05:02 PM
Tim Fletcher writes:
> What ever a none privilaged user space apps does witness:
>
> root@localhost# dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/mem
If you can do that as a non-priviledged user, then you've got bigger
security problems than that.
/dev/mem should NOT be read/writable by anyone other than root. Its
permissions should be no more than 600.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-25 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-22 15:23 kernel BUG at slab.c:1542! (2.4.1-pre9) Jorge Nerin
2001-01-22 22:37 ` kernel BUG at slab.c:1542!(2.4.1-pre9) Shawn Starr
2001-01-23 3:02 ` David Ford
2001-01-24 12:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-24 13:29 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-24 14:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-24 15:45 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-25 1:18 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-24 18:05 ` Tim Fletcher
2001-01-24 17:50 ` Shawn Starr
2001-01-24 18:05 ` Tim Fletcher
2001-01-25 11:49 ` Russell King [this message]
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