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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] disallow modular capabilities
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:

> There's been a bugtraq report about a root exploit with modular
> capabilities LSM support out for more than a week.

It was a root exploit only triggerable by root. Not exactly
what I would call a real problem.

-Andi