Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:34:02 -0500 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | 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. > > 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. >
same here on a celeron-333. Running glibc-2.0.111.
-- arvind
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