From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
Bryan Fulton <bryan@coverity.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Coverity] Untrusted user data in kernel
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:18:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41C2DCBC.1080302@dbservice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xine.LNX.4.44.0412170144410.12579-100000@thoron.boston.redhat.com>
James Morris wrote:
> That's what I meant, you need the capability to do anything bad :-)
>
But.. even if you have the 'permission' to do bad things, it shouldn't
be possible.
It's a bug, and only because you can't exploit it if you haven't the
right capabilities doesn't make the bug disappear.
IMHO such things (passing values between user/kernel space) should
always be checked.
tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-17 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-12-17 5:15 ` [Coverity] Untrusted user data in kernel James Morris
2004-12-17 5:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-17 6:45 ` James Morris
2004-12-17 13:18 ` Tomas Carnecky [this message]
2004-12-17 19:16 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-17 19:34 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-17 19:30 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-17 15:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-12-17 16:11 ` linux-os
2004-12-17 16:31 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-12-17 18:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-12-17 19:18 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-17 19:30 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-12-17 19:39 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-18 1:42 ` Horst von Brand
2004-12-17 15:10 ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-17 15:38 ` James Morris
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