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From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, local root on 2.4, 2.6?] compute_creds race
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:16:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fzbc19d5.fsf@goat.bogus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4076F02E.1000809@myrealbox.com

Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com> writes:

> The setuid program is now running with uid=euid=500 but full permitted
> capabilities.  There are two (or three) ways to effectively get local
> root now:

What about this slightly shorter fix?

diff -urN a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
--- a/fs/exec.c	Fri Mar 12 01:19:06 2004
+++ b/fs/exec.c	Sat Apr 10 10:54:20 2004
@@ -942,6 +942,9 @@
 			if(!capable(CAP_SETUID)) {
 				bprm->e_uid = current->uid;
 				bprm->e_gid = current->gid;
+				cap_clear (bprm->cap_inheritable);
+				cap_clear (bprm->cap_permitted);
+				cap_clear (bprm->cap_effective);
 			}
 		}
 	}

Regards, Olaf.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-10  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-09 18:49 [PATCH, local root on 2.4, 2.6?] compute_creds race Andy Lutomirski
2004-04-09 20:43 ` Chris Wright
2004-04-09 20:53   ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-04-10  9:16 ` Olaf Dietsche [this message]
2004-04-10 15:40   ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-04-10 18:41     ` Olaf Dietsche
2004-04-10 18:59       ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-04-10 10:32 ` Olaf Dietsche
2004-04-12 18:40   ` Chris Wright

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