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[linux-security] Re: Serious Linux 2.0.34 security problem (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Linux mailing list user)
Sun Jul 5 17:14:49 1998
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 12:00:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: Linux mailing list user <linux@windows95.sucks.eu.org>
To: Annex <annex@thing.annexgrp.org>
cc: linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BOO.3.96.980702110321.7217E-100000@thing.annexgrp.org>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Annex wrote:
> I just saw this mentioned on linux-kernel and confirmed it;
[...]
> The fix is to invert !euid to euid in fs/fcntl.c:send_sigio(); line number
> is approximately 139.
A much simpler fix is to update to a 2.0.35preX kernel (X>=3).
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/2.0.35pre/
LLaP
bero
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