Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:59:50 -0600 | From | Sean Connor <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 SECURITY |
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On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:46:06PM -0700, Dan Burcaw wrote: > > There is a bug that works only on the 2.2.0 kernel that will allow root > and non-root users to crash the machine (the system reboots). > > To replicate this bug do following: > > Take any core file, and as normal user or root run: ldd core > > The machine will reboot, saying that it cannot get execution permissions > for ./core > > As far as I can tell, this problem only affects x86 machines running > 2.2.0. I know that PPC is not affected.
I am unable to replicate this.
The machine is a Cyrix 6x86MX-233, using a very recent Debian slink snapshot. (I just synced with ftp.debian.org last night) ldd version is 1.9.10
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