Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [parisc-linux] Security Hole in binfmt_som.c ? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sat, 30 Aug 2003 14:49:50 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2003-08-30 at 14:15, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:42:37PM +0200, Ruediger Scholz wrote: > > binfmt_som.c:216:2: #error "Fix security hole before enabling me" > > What's this message about? > > I don't know. I wish someone would tell me. You'd think they'd have the > decency to contact the person listed as the author at the top of the file.
Actually explanations were posted in the previous discussion on this on parisc-list.
Someone has to do the equivalent of the 2.4.22 binfmt_elf changes if neccessary so that another thread can't change the file handles or steal the exec fd being passed to the loader.
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