Re: 2.2.0 SECURITY

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:20:26 -0600


Hi Dave,

> There are several stupid bugs in binfmt_elf's core dumping code.

Back in 1.3.XX I noticed a bunch of bugs in binfmt_elf.c like the ones
you report. Somebody cleaned up most of them a long time, but basically,
Eric Youngdale wrote bad code. I don't say this lightly. He wrote the
original xconfig parser too, which has caused me a lot of grief.

I recommend someone with a clue take a baseball bat or a chainsaw to
fs/binfmt_elf.c.

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"

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