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On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:46:57PM +0200, Von Wolher wrote: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > >> I did a slight modification of the patch I committed initially, in the > >> face of the report from Marcel that the initial sledge-hammer approach > >> broke his hald setup. > >> > >> See commit 9ee8ab9fbf21e6b87ad227cd46c0a4be41ab749b: "Relax /proc fix > >> a bit", which should still fix the bug (can somebody verify? I'm 100% > >> sure, but still..), but is pretty much guaranteed to not have any > >> secondary side effects. > >> > >> It still leaves the whole issue of whether /proc should honor chmod AT > >> ALL open, and I'd love to close that one, but from a "minimal fix" > >> standpoint, I think it's a reasonable (and simple) patch. > >> > >> Marcel, can you check current git? > > > > > > I can confirm that the new fix prevents the exploit from working, with > > no immediately visible side effects. > > > > Thanks, > > Daniel > > > > Can some one release a 2.6.17.6 ? I think many people are waiting at > their keyboard to get their systems protected. If they are waiting, they should use 2.6.17.5, as only Networkmanager is reported to be having problems with it. I'll release .6 in a bit, but it will take an hour or so to get it uploaded and out to the mirrors... thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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