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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.17.5
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:28:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B8A720.3030309@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607142217020.5623@g5.osdl.org>

Hi Linus,

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I did a slight modification of the patch I committed initially, in the 
> face of the report from Marcel that the initial sledge-hammer approach 
> broke his hald setup.
> 
> See commit 9ee8ab9fbf21e6b87ad227cd46c0a4be41ab749b: "Relax /proc fix a 
> bit", which should still fix the bug (can somebody verify? I'm 100% sure, 
> but still..), but is pretty much guaranteed to not have any secondary side 
> effects.
> 
> It still leaves the whole issue of whether /proc should honor chmod AT ALL 
> open, and I'd love to close that one, but from a "minimal fix" standpoint, 
> I think it's a reasonable (and simple) patch.
> 
> Marcel, can you check current git?

I can confirm that the new fix prevents the exploit from working, with 
no immediately visible side effects.

Thanks,
Daniel


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-15  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-15  3:00 Linux 2.6.17.5 Greg KH
2006-07-15  3:01 ` Greg KH
2006-07-15  3:28 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2006-07-15  4:20   ` Greg KH
2006-07-15 23:59     ` Matthew Frost
2006-07-16  0:08       ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-15  5:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-15  7:55   ` Bastian Blank
2006-07-15  8:28   ` Daniel Drake [this message]
2006-07-15 15:46     ` Von Wolher
2006-07-15 18:48       ` Greg KH
2006-07-15 18:50       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2006-07-15 19:17         ` Marcel Holtmann

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