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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: Local root exploit with kmod and modutils > 2.1.121
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Followup to:  <5529.974412016@ocs3.ocs-net>
By author: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:21:52 +0100,
> Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> wrote:
> >as modprobe (insmod) args parsing seems POSIX compliant, we should put a
> >"--" before
> >what should be interpreted only as a textual argument, not as an option.
> >This is a lot safer: whatever is passed, modprobe will take it as a module
> >name.
>
> That only solves one of the two exploit methods. modutils 2.3.20
> solves both without any kernel changes, mainly so it fixes the problem
> on all kernels, including 2.2.
>

However, the kernel change is probably still a good idea.

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