From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: lm@bitmover.com
Cc: pavel@suse.cz, davej@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:27:59 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020319.152759.06816290.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020319152502.J14877@work.bitmover.com>
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:25:02 -0800
Come on Pavel, in order to make this happen, you have to
a) run the installer as root
b) know the next pid which will be allocated
c) put the symlink in /tmp/installer$pid
Exploit: Make all 65535 $pid simlinks
It's very exploitable actually, and is similar in vein to
all the ancient mktemp stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-19 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-18 21:26 Bitkeeper licence issues Pavel Machek
2002-03-18 22:42 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-18 23:14 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-18 23:22 ` Dave Jones
2002-03-18 23:43 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 8:35 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 2:02 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 8:21 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-03-19 15:11 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 21:58 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 22:04 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] ` <20020319215800.GN12260@atrey.karlin.m__.cuni.cz>
2002-03-20 22:42 ` Ton Hospel
2002-03-19 22:06 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 23:25 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 23:27 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-03-19 23:44 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 23:45 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 23:54 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-03-19 23:56 ` Ben Collins
2002-03-20 17:23 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-20 17:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-20 18:04 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-20 20:34 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-19 23:34 ` Tom Rini
2002-03-20 0:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 11:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-03-20 7:57 ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-19 0:00 ` yodaiken
2002-03-19 1:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 1:18 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19 1:37 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 18:42 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19 19:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-19 20:01 ` Shane Nay
2002-03-19 23:08 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 23:19 ` Robert Love
2002-03-19 23:26 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 23:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-19 23:31 ` yodaiken
2002-03-19 23:47 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-20 0:02 ` Thomas Dodd
2002-03-20 0:19 ` Theodore Tso
2002-03-20 0:57 ` Petko Manolov
2002-03-21 19:44 ` Mark H. Wood
2002-03-21 20:29 ` Shane Nay
2002-03-27 14:40 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-03-20 0:05 ` James Simmons
2002-03-19 20:35 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-03-20 0:14 ` Kurt Ferreira
2002-03-20 2:16 ` Greg Hennessy
2002-03-20 0:57 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-21 19:14 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-21 20:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-22 0:02 ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19 1:44 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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