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    SubjectRe: 2.2.0 SECURITY

    [admin@athena admin]$ cc -o try try.c
    [admin@athena admin]$ ./try
    Segmentation fault
    [admin@athena admin]$ ls -l core
    /usr/bin/color-ls: core: No such file or directory

    ldd 1.9.9
    libc 5.4.38
    SMP not enabled

    On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Paul 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.
    > >
    > >Note: This problem does not occur in kernels before 2.2.0, and is
    > >apparently fixed in 2.2.0ac1.
    > >
    > >Thanks to Gennady Gurov (gurov@frii.com) for discovering this problem.
    >
    > Occured here: Ppro 200, 48mb RAM, Matrox fb, Soundblaster 16, smbfs,
    > IP-masq, using egcs 1.1, ide-scsi, rest is pretty vanilla
    >
    > Both on 2.2.0 AND 2.2.0-final
    >
    > ldd is from Glibc-2.0.108 (also compiled with egcs 1.1)
    >
    > core was from program:
    > main() { * (int *) 0 = 0; }
    >
    > core perms were 600
    >
    > Note, my machine hung hard, with no reboot.
    > Error message given:
    > free_one_pmd: bad directory entry 000001e3
    >
    > Paul Laufer
    >
    >
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