Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 1999 05:34:57 +0000 ( ) | From | Aaron Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 SECURITY |
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Yikes! Tried it on my Cyrix 6x86MX/233 and the screen just went black, followed by the BIOS boot screen :(. This needs to be fixed immediately. I went back to 2.0.36 for the time being.
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, 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. > > 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. > > > Dan > > Terra Firma Design & Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. > > voice (970) 416-9821 in Fort Collins > email dburcaw@terraplex.com > website http://www.terraplex.com/ > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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