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From: Andreas Gietl <Listen@e-admin.de>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: bernhard.kaindl@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.4+ptrace] fix side effects of the kmod/ptrace secfix
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 00:37:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304250037.45133.Listen@e-admin.de> (raw)

>  You would need to restrict cmdline access to all root processes(not only
>  suid) and maybe even to all processes with different capabilites and > 
uid/gid
>  to work around problems in such processes. But you would break even more
> system monitoring stuff this way(I've even heard shutdown is affected)

i can confirm that shutdown (halt|reboot) does not work on my 2.4.21-rc1-ac1 
boxes. (gentoo + redhat).

But your patch does not seem to fix it.

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             reply	other threads:[~2003-04-24 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-24 22:37 Andreas Gietl [this message]
2003-04-25 10:40 ` [PATCH][2.4-rc1] fix side effects of the kmod/ptrace secfix Bernhard Kaindl
2003-04-25 14:40   ` Andreas Gietl
2003-04-25 14:30     ` Bernhard Kaindl
2003-04-26 16:58       ` Andreas Gietl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-17  5:46 2.4+ptrace exploit fix breaks root's ability to strace Yusuf Wilajati Purna
2003-04-19  5:57 ` Bernhard Kaindl
2003-04-22  5:03   ` Yusuf Wilajati Purna
2003-04-22 22:30     ` [PATCH][2.4+ptrace] fix side effects of the kmod/ptrace secfix Bernhard Kaindl
2003-04-24  5:40       ` Nuno Silva
2003-04-24  9:00         ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-24 11:26           ` Bernhard Kaindl

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