Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: LINUX 2.2 SECURITY: more clues | Date | Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:32:01 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> |
| |
> Nothing happened. I might be wrong, but perhaps it's a bug with the RH5.x ldd > from the glibc package? AFAIR many people who reported the crash were using > RH5.x - some of them didn't mention which dist they use, but those who said > they're running Slackware or Debian dists didn't have problems. Perpahs that's > where one should look?
Maybe it happens only with some ldd's, but the kernel needs fixing anyway. A normal user should not be able to crash the OS by running a buggy program, as an evil user could then bring his own buggy ldd in order to crash machines.
Helge Hafting
- 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/
| |