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[linux-security] Re: Bug in 2.2.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Mar 17 11:08:34 1999
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: nuno@lwp.si.ualg.pt (Nuno Loureiro)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:26:17 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
bugtraq@netspace.org, linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990317055620.nuno@lwp.si.ualg.pt> from "Nuno Loureiro" at Mar 17, 99 05:56:20 am
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
[mod: I've suppressed the original announcement until now, This looks
like reliable information to me, so just to kill the rumor machine
-- REW ;-]
> Tonight, I found that doing a kill -9 -1 as a normal user
> kills root processes in 2.2.3ac1. I talked with other
> person and he had the same results with 2.2.3 plain.
I think your tester screwed up. 2.2.3ac1 does indeed have that problem - its
test code you get test code sized bugs 8). 2.2.3ac2 doesn;t have the problem
2.2.3 vanilla doesn't appear to have the problem either. It certainly doesn't
contain the erroneous capability check I was playing with
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