[3569] in bugtraq
Re: BoS: Urgent !! Serious Linux Security Bug....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Oct 25 15:23:38 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:05:19 +0100
Reply-To: Alan Cox <coxa@cableol.net>
From: Alan Cox <coxa@cableol.net>
X-To: obrien@NUXI.cs.ucdavis.edu
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To: <199610250814.BAA18190@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at
Oct 25, 96 01:14:05 am
> have stomped on some important kernel data structure.
>
> Opinions? Confirmations? Specific kernel code snippets with explanations
> (for those that don't hack that particular system's kernel)?
Not in the Linux case. The bug was (and I suspect is in some other cases)
a 16bit/32bit value problem.
Alan
