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From: Manuel Arostegui Ramirez <manuel@todo-linux.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chris White <webmaster@securesystem.info>
Subject: Re: Kernel fchown() exploit status?
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:02:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407091202.58377.manuel@todo-linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407091146.32077.mbuesch@freenet.de>

El Viernes 09 Julio 2004 11:46, Michael Buesch escribió:
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> Quoting Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>:
> > * Chris White (webmaster@securesystem.info) wrote:
> > > There was a recent security announcment regarding a vulnerability with
> > > the fchown function.
> > >
> > > Only a few distrobutions (red hat/suse) have fixed the issue, but I've
> > > yet to see a general patch for it.
> >
> > Patches are in both 2.4 and 2.6 bk trees.  2.4.27-rc3 has this fixed.
> > There hasn't been a 2.6.8-rc release since the patches went in to 2.6
>
> Is there an exploit available to test if the kernel has
> this vulnerability?

Look at this:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10662/exploit/
It says that it's not exploit requiered to exploit this bug.

Any ideas,  Chris White?

Cheers

 
-- 
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez #Linux Registered User 200896


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-09 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-08 21:06 Kernel fchown() exploit status? Chris White
2004-07-08 21:54 ` Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
2004-07-08 23:24 ` Chris Wright
2004-07-09  9:46   ` Michael Buesch
2004-07-09 10:02     ` Manuel Arostegui Ramirez [this message]
2004-07-09 18:17     ` Chris Wright

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