Re: Kernel fchown() exploit status?

Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
2004-07-09T10:04:35Z

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.
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> > 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
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> 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

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